to trust other people are transmitted from parents to children. Our evidence is based on survey questions that ask about … the responses of parents and their children. Exploring heterogeneity in the strength of transmission, we find that gender … based on risk and trust attitudes, which reinforces the impact of parents on children. Our results have potentially …

This study investigates the selection into lab experiments among university students based on data from two cohorts of … a university's first-year students. The analysis combines two experiments: a classroom experiment in which we elicited … participants. In the recruitment experiment, students were randomly assigned to four conditions that highlighted altruistic motives …