Economic preferences – like time, risk and social preferences – have been shown to be very influential for real … that has examined how and when economic preferences are formed, putting particular emphasis on the role of … intergenerational transmission of economic preferences within families. Our paper is the first to run incentivized experiments with …

The formation of economic preferences in childhood and adolescence has long-term consequences for life-time outcomes … social preferences. We find that second born children are typically less patient, less risk averse, and more trusting …

, risk preferences, and cognitive abilities, and is not driven by sample attrition. Accounting for middle-school GPA as a …

correlated with the degree of discrimination, suggesting that discriminatory preferences are being transmitted through parental …

own present bias, but molding their children’s preferences towards more time-consistent choices …