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 …

This study examines cognitive and non-cognitive skills and their transmission from parents to children as one potential … personality traits (Big Five, locus of control) on their adolescent and young adult children's traits with the effects of parental … from parents to their children, there are large discrepancies with respect to the age group and the type of skill. The …

What happens to children's long-run cognitive development when introducing universal high-quality childcare for 3-year … difference-in-difference approach. We find sizable improvements in children's reading and math skills at age 15, as well as in … grade progression during primary and secondary school. Effects are driven by girls and disadvantaged children …

This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory …

disadvantage (socio-economic position) and contextual disadvantage (environmental context in which children grow up). The objective … neighbourhood careers of children once they have left the parental home.We use a quasi-experimental family design exploiting sibling …

developing countries. Few studies document the patterns and determinants of internal youth migration in sub-Saharan Africa … socioeconomic determinants in later youth migration decisions to rural and urban areas.RESULTS: We find that young people undertake … men and women. CONTRIBUTION: We contribute to the sparse literature on internal youth migration in developing countries by …

About 15 years ago, economic experiments with children and adolescents were considered as an extravagant niche of … increase of papers, we provide the first overview of economic experiments with children and adolescents. We focus on the …

gender differences emerge with age and by gender of opponent. Our samples contain 186 children (aged 10–12), 310 teenagers … for children, males begin to wager substantially more as they become teenagers, leading to the emergence of the gender gap …