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of a healthy labeled meal. Our analysis is based on a field experiment in a lunch restaurant and our results imply that … on the menu, does not impact sales of the healthy labelled meal in our experiment. We conclude that supplying tasty …
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of a healthy labeled meal. Our analysis is based on a field experiment in a lunch restaurant and our results imply that … on the menu, does not impact sales of the healthy labelled meal in our experiment. We conclude that supplying tasty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010585718
. This is the first experiment of this kind that finds effects of weight loss rewards up to 18 months after they were removed …
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The literature on pro-social behavior shows that older children are more generous than younger children; however, the … level of individual generosity is heterogeneous even between children of the same age. This paper investigates whether a … child’s popularity affects a child’s generosity. Our participants – 231 children, six to twelve years old – decide …
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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 …
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from a field experiment with children of different ages. Since the research in child development has established that … younger children have difficulty delaying gratification, while after age 10 children become skilled at doing so, we exploited … work productivity in a way consistent with theory: it is negative for the youngest children (aged under 8) and positive for …
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The literature on pro-social behavior shows that older children are more generous than younger children; however, the … level of individual generosity is heterogeneous even between children of the same age. This paper investigates whether a … child’s popularity affects a child’s generosity. Our participants – 231 children, six to twelve years old – decide how many …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010775180
the classic “Marshmallow Test”, we report data from a field experiment in which children between the ages of 6 and 13 were …-regulatory resources of younger children are more easily depleted than those of older children. We find that, subsequent to exposure to … temptation, productivity of younger children is significantly detrimentally impacted, while that of older children remains …
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. We randomly selected households that had at least two school-age children (6–18 years) of different genders. Parents …Using experimental techniques, we identify parental attitudes toward different-gendered children in rural Bangladesh … toward children of a specific gender; 2) neither parent is systematically biased; 3) there are no significant differences in …
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investment among boys and girls. We conduct an artifactual field experiment to identify parents’ inherent gender bias and then … attempt to examine how this attitude correlates with the actual decisions regarding schooling and health of their own children …This paper investigates whether parents’ inherent gender bias is associated with intrahousehold human capital …
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