We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated … by parental preferences: if parents prefer certain sex compositions over others, childrenś gender affects not only the … outcomes of other children but also the very existence of potential additional children. We address this problem by looking at …

examine whether a social norm nudgecan stimulate such households to save more by running a small-scale survey ex-periment and … a large-scale field experiment at a retail bank in the Netherlands.The survey experiment shows that a social norm nudge … increases intended sav-ings. In line with this, we find in our field experiment that households whoare exposed to the social …

We analyse the evolving impact of family background on educational attainment using administrative data on 2 …,417,460 individuals from 1,341,403 families born in the Netherlands between 1966 and 1995. Comparisons between parents and their children … be roughly stable across cohorts. Despite a reduction in overall education inequality, we conclude that family background …

Children are increasingly recognized as secondary victims of intimate partner violence. This paper uses a unique UK … children's development up to the age of seven. Estimating production functions for cognitive, social, and socio …

field experiment examines the extent to which this is the case. At different points in time, the same participants allocated … experiment on stationarity, time invariance and time consistency finds using a different design among a different type of … a significant association between changes in household wealth and violations of stationarity and time consistency. We …

emotions. This conjecture is tested in an experiment with real lottery tickets. We show that our theoretical considerations may …

-referenced) and the relative (i.e., norm-referenced) grading schemes in a large-scale field experiment at a university. We hypothesize … absolute grading, grading on a curve actually narrows the gender gap in performance. …

This paper examines the impact of payment choice on charitablegiving with a door-to-door fund-raising field experiment …

We ran a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain consisting of 128 stores. In a random sample of these stores, we … growth, but only in stores where the store's manager and a large fraction of the employees have the same gender. Remarkably …

We conducted a field experiment to examine the effects of student feedback to teachers at a large Dutch school for … feedback. Additionally, we asked all teachers before as well as after the experiment to assess their own performance on the … a year later. Only those teachers whose self-assessment before the experiment is much more positive than their students …