personality traits of their children. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes, the Big Five personality traits and …

children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children … respect to risk and trust attitudes and thus transmit their own attitudes more strongly. The results are robust to including …

children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children … respect to risk and trust attitudes and thus transmit their own attitudes more strongly. The results are robust to including …

to trust other people – are transmitted from parents to children. Our evidence is based on survey questions that ask … influenced by parents in terms of risk attitudes. Interestingly, for trust there is no impact of family size or birth order … who are similar to parents in terms of risk are similar in terms of trust. We find that the transmission from parents to …

children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children … respect to risk and trust attitudes and thus transmit their own attitudes more strongly. The results are robust to including …

preferences such as risk preference, and crucial beliefs about the world, such as trust. This paper provides evidence on the three …

preferences such as risk preference, and crucial beliefs about the world, such as trust. This paper provides evidence on the three …

preferences such as risk preference, and crucial beliefs about the world, such as trust. This paper provides evidence on the three …

Understanding the formation of trust at the individual level is a key issue given the impact that it has been … recognized to have on economic development. Theoretical work highlights the role of the transmission of values such as trust from …-sectional regression of the trust of children on the contemporaneous trust of their parents. We introduce a new identification strategy …

Understanding the formation of trust at the individual level is a key issue given the impact that it has been … recognized to have on economic development. Theoretical work highlights the role of the transmission of values such as trust from …-sectional regression of the trust of children on the contemporaneous trust of their parents. We introduce a new identification strategy …