transfers to their own parents in order to instill appropriate preferences in their children. This generates a derived demand … downpayments. We argue that parents provide help with downpayments in order to encourage the production of grandchildren, and that … such a subsidization emanates from the "demonstration effect:" a child's propensity to furnish parents with attention and …

household survey dataset, which allows us to match respondents to their siblings and parents. Our results indicate that …, even after conditioning on the attitudes of parents and other controls. This trust deficit persists into early adulthood …

transfers to their own parents in order to instill appropriate preferences in their children. This generates a derived demand …. We argue that parents provide help with downpayments in order to encourage the production of grandchildren, and that such … a subsidization emanates from the demonstration effect: a child's propensity to furnish parents with attention and care …

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 parental interference, we show that more than half of all parents are …

habits. This can be explained by both cultural and educational transfers from parents to children and by imitative behaviour … children using a household fixed-effects model, where we identify the impact of the parents' role by exploiting the different …. Imitation is of particular interest, since it suggests the direct influence parents can have on a child's preference and habit …

children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children …-Economic Panel Study. Our results show that parents who invest more in the upbringing of their children are more similar to them with … variables on the relationship between children and parents, family size, and the parents’ socioeconomic background. …

Do quot;family traditionsquot; influence bequest behavior? If an individual receives an inheritance from his parents …, is he more likely to give a bequest to his children, even after controlling for the boost in wealth conferred by the …