Recently, early investments in the human capital of children from socially disadvantaged environments have attracted a … great deal of attention. Programs of such early intervention, aiming at children's health and well-being, are spreading … parents' and a children's generation we show the intra-generational and the inter-generational redistributional consequences …

reduction in parental time devoted to children, which modifies their human capital accumulation process. We show that the result … critically depends on the assumptions on the altruistic motives behind the choice of devoting time to children. …

. 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 …