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 …

We study the transmission of risk attitudes in a unique survey of mothers and children in which both participated in an … incentivized risk preference elicitation task. We document that risk preferences are correlated between mothers and children when … the children are just 7 to 8 years old. This correlation is only present for daughters. We show that a measure of parental …