We present direct evidence on the link between children's patience and educational-track choices years later. Combining … an incentivized patience measure of 493 primary-school children with their high-school track choices taken at least three …

dilemmas and maintening public goods in human societies. We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 … of defectors is applied. Children also engage in reciprocating others, showing that reciprocity strategies are already … young children fail to anticipate the benefits of reputation building. We also show that the cognitive skills of children …

We present a field experiment to study the effects of non-monetary incentives on healthy food choices of 282 children … classmates as change agents by providing them with information regarding the food choices of their children or friends. We find …

We measure the prevalence of discrimination between Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children attending school in … Jordan. Using a simple sharing experiment, we find only little discrimination. Among the Jordanian children, however, we see …

We measure the prevalence of discrimination between Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children attending school in … Jordan. Using a simple sharing experiment, we find only little discrimination. Among the Jordanian children, however, we see …

fathers and mothers and their children by drawing on a unique dataset of 1,999 members of Bangladeshi families, including 911 … children, aged 6-17 years, and 544 pairs of mothers and fathers. We find a large degree of intergenerational persistence as the … economic preferences of mothers and fathers are significantly positively related to their children's economic preferences …

We study the developmental roots of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 to 6. In a unified experimental framework … a repeated prisoner's dilemma game. We find that already children aged 3 act in a conditionally cooperative way. Yet … children's cognitive skills and parents' socioeconomic background influence cooperation. We complement our experimental …

We study whether and how parents interfere paternalistically in their children's intertemporal decision-making. Based … on experiments with over 2,000 members of 610 families, we find that parents anticipate their children's present bias and … willing to pay money to override their children's choices. Parental interference predicts more intensive parenting styles and …

social preferences. We find that second born children are typically less patient, less risk averse, and more trusting …. However, siblings' sex composition interacts importantly with birth order effects. Second born children are more risk taking …

We use novel data on nearly 6,000 children and adolescents aged 6 to 16 that combine incentivized measures of social …, time, and risk preferences with rich information on child behavior and family environment to study whether children … of children's preferences for their prosociality, educational achievement, risky behaviors, emotional health, and …