mechanisms, however, vulnerability to poverty linked to risk remains high. This article reviews the literature on poor households … information on households vulnerability to poverty through both quantitative and qualitative methods can help inform policy. …

We measure time preferences in a sample of 561 children aged seven to eleven years. Using a within-subject design we …

from a bilingual city in Northern Italy. We find that German-speaking primary school children are about 46% more likely … than Italian-speaking children to delay gratification in an intertemporal choice experiment. The difference remains …