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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 … aim to mitigate it. Using a novel method to measure parental interference, we show that more than half of all parents are …
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-achieving students. The reduction in learning time was not larger for children from lower-educated parents, but it was larger for boys … collect detailed time-use information on students before and during the school closures in a survey of 1,099 parents in … argue that low-achieving students may be particularly affected by the lack of educator support during school closures. We …
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in Germany, either teachers or parents have the discretion to decide which secondary school track a child may attend … increased time investments in students' skill development. Overall, my results suggest that selective admission policies can … lead to permanent improvements in students' educational performances. …
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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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- to eleven-year old primary school children in the city of Meran, we find that cooperation generally increases with age …, but that the gap between cooperation among in-group members and cooperation towards children speaking another language is …
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We measure time preferences in a sample of 561 children aged seven to eleven years. Using a within-subject design we …
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We study with a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation … experiment is related to children's risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by …
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stage by investigating the gender pay gap among university students working alongside their studies. With data from five … pay gaps and potential explanations. We find that female students earn about 6% less on average than male students, which … male and female students pursue. …
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