social preferences. We find that second born children are typically less patient, less risk averse, and more trusting …. However, siblings' sex composition interacts importantly with birth order effects. Second born children are more risk taking …

. We study in an experiment with 336 kindergarten children, aged three to six years, whether intertemporal choice behavior … is malleable. In a control condition, about 50% of children prefer two rewards the next day over one reward immediately … successfully in promoting delay of gratification. We also find that patience increases with age and that more patient children have …

childbearing on subsequent educational attainment, family structure, labor market outcomes and financial self-sufficiency. In … mother reachers her late twenties, she appears to have only slightly more children, is only slightly more likely to be single …

childbearing on subsequent educational attainment, family structure, labor market outcomes and financial self-sufficiency. In … mother reachers her late twenties, she appears to have only slightly more children, is only slightly more likely to be single …