Using experimental data of children and their mothers, this paper explores the intergenerational relationship of … impatience. The child’s impatience stems from a delay of gratification experiment, the mother’s from a choice task. Findings …

A growing literature in economics examines the development of preferences among children and adolescents. We combine a … or not. In a sample of 384 children aged 5-17, we find an increase in donations until the age of 13-14, but not beyond …

competitiveness of children in matrilineal and patriarchal societies. We find that while there is no difference at any age in the …

- 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 …

children of parents with low education are more spiteful, more selfish and less altruistic. This link is robust to controlling … development of preferences, as we find children to become less spiteful and more altruistic with increasing age. Our findings … invested in instilling other-regarding preferences into children, making them less likely to acquire cooperative types of …