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the children brought with them depends on the quality of the destination that their parents selected. Exploiting variation … migrants in Indonesia. Using Population Census microdata from 2000 and 2010, I show that children who spend more time growing … permanent residents at an average rate of 1.7 to 2.2 percent annually, with children from less educated households benefiting …
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program can improve long-run education outcomes of low SES children and reduce inequality of opportunity. Low SES children …Inequality of opportunity strikes when two children with the same academic performance are sent to different quality … children are significantly less likely to enter the academic track if they come from low socio-economic status (SES) families …
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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 …
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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 …
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The COVID19 crisis has hit labor markets. School and child-care closures have put families with children in challenging … German work force have children aged 14 or younger and estimate that 11 percent of workers and 8 percent of all working hours …
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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 …
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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 …
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personality traits of their children. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes, the Big Five personality traits and … locus of control of parents and their children, as well as rich information about parental efforts in the upbringing of … their children from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study. Our results show that parents who are more involved in the …
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Credence goods markets with their asymmetric information between buyers and sellers are prone to large inefficiencies. In theory, poorly informed consumers can protect themselves from maltreatment through sellers by asking for second opinions from other sellers. Yet, empirical evidence whether...
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Motherhood continues to pose significant challenges to women's careers, and a correct assessment of its effects is crucial for understanding the persistent gender inequality in the labor market. We show that the prevalent approach to estimate post-birth earnings losses - so called "child...
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