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Kiessling, Lukas; Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; … - 2021

We study whether and how parents interfere paternalistically in their children’s intertemporal decision-making. Based on experiments with over 2,000 members of 610 families, we find that parents anticipate their children’s present bias and aim to mitigate it. Using a novel method to measure...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012418249

Parental paternalism and patience

Kiessling, Lukas; Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; … - 2021

We study whether and how parents interfere paternalistically in their children's intertemporal decision-making. Based on experiments with over 2,000 members of 610 families, we find that parents anticipate their children's present bias and aim to mitigate it. Using a novel method to measure...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012418434

Parental paternalism and patience

Kiessling, Lukas; Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; … - 2021

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012403892

Parental paternalism and patience

Kiessling, Lukas; Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; … - 2021

We study whether and how parents interfere paternalistically in their children's intertemporal decision-making. Based on experiments with over 2,000 members of 610 families, we ﬁnd that parents anticipate their children's present bias and aim to mitigate it. Using a novel method to measure...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012416153

Parental paternalism and patience

Kiessling, Lukas; Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; … - 2021

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012416833

Sibling differences in educational polygenic scores : how do parents react?

Sanz de Galdeano, Anna; Terskaya, Anastasia - 2019

We take advantage of recent advances in behavioral genetics to revisit a classic question in economics: how do parents respond to children's endowments and to differences in endowments among siblings? Parental investment decisions depend both on parental preferences regarding inequality in the...

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Early Childhood Human Capital Formation at Scale

Bos, Johannes; Khan, Akib; Ravindran, Saravana; … - 2021

Can governments leverage existing service-delivery platforms to scale early childhood development (ECD) programs? We experimentally study a large-scale home-visiting intervention providing materials and counseling --- integrated into Bangladesh's national nutrition program without extra...

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Health endowments, schooling allocation in the family, and longevity: evidence from US twins

Savelyev, Peter A.; Ward, Benjamin C.; Krueger, Robert F.; … - 2021

We analyze data from the Minnesota Twin Registry (MTR), combined with the Socioeconomic Survey of Twins (SST), and new mortality data, and contribute to two bodies of literature. First, we demonstrate a beneficial causal effect of education on health and longevity in contrast to other twin-based...

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Skills, education and fertility and the confounding impact of family background

Kramarz, Francis; Nordström Skans, Oskar; Rosenqvist, Olof - 2019

capital measures are virtually unrelated to fertility, but this again masks the role of family background factors: more … remove family background factors. Hence, for both men and women, human capital and fertility become more positively … fertility, an association which instead is muted within families. We end by showing that these results can be reconciled in a …

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Sibling Size and Investment in Children's Education : An Asian Instrument

Lee, Jungmin - 2021

fertility due to son preferences. Under son preferences, childbearing and fertility timing are determined conditional on the … households. However, sibling size has adverse effects on per-child investment in education, in particular when fertility is high …

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