intergenerational transmission of education and income. Using the Italian Time Use Survey (2002-2003) conducted by ISTAT, we analyse the … intergenerational transmission of reading habits: are children more likely to allocate time to studying and reading when they observe … their parents doing the same activity? The intergeneration transmission of attitudes towards studying and reading can be …

We evaluate a program that aims to improve children's reading skills by providing classes with age-appropriate reading … a reading assessment, causing students' scores to improve by 0.13 standard deviations immediately after the program. The …

This paper investigates the importance of parents reading to their young children. Using Australian data we find that … parental reading to children at age 4 to 5 has positive and significant effects on reading skills and cognitive skills of these …

agency in employment relationships relies on highly stylized assumptions regarding human motivation, e.g., that employees …

intrinsic (questions that people like to work on) and extrinsic motivation (incentive payments) increase time investments and as …. Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation turn out to be complements …

endowment. We also propose a new method of detecting warm glow motivation based on the idea that in a random-lottery incentive … motivation does not …