of social preferences by providing mechanisms through which parents transmit preferences for generosity to their children …. Then, we conduct a field experiment with nearly 150 3-5 year old children and their parents, measuring (1) whether child … and parent generosity is correlated, (2) whether children are influenced by their parents when making sharing decisions …

minimum altruism, in which child labor in a given family is judged relative to a specific social standard. Under this … criterion, child labor is exploitative only in families where the parent (or guardian) displays insufficient altruism towards …

externalities inflicted by parents when they decide on their children's diet. Within an OLG model with an imperfectly altruistic …

of pioneers such as Gary Becker, economists have used the toolset of their discipline to understand what parents do and … how parents' actions affect their children. In recent years, the literature on parenting within economics has increasingly …