This case study documents how India, the world's second most populous country, pulled the reins on a global epidemic to … stop it in its tracks from growing into a generalized epidemic. Central to the case study is the story of a government body …, the National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) that, with the support of international development organizations like the …

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 …

Using unique panel data, we compare cognitive performance and wagering behavior of children (10-11 years) with adults …

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 …

Childhood obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the U.S., with now almost a third of children ages 2-19 deemed …,500 children, we report several key insights. First, we find that individual incentives can have large influences: in the control …, only 17% of children prefer the healthy snack, whereas the introduction of small incentives increases take-up of the …