We present direct evidence on the link between children’s patience and educational-track choices years later. Combining … an incentivized patience measure of 493 primary-school children with their high-school track choices taken at least three …

dilemmas and maintening public goods in human societies. We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 … of defectors is applied. Children also engage in reciprocating others, showing that reciprocity strategies are already … young children fail to anticipate the benefits of reputation building. We also show that the cognitive skills of children …

’s employment on children’s wellbeing (which proxy traditional gender attitudes). Drawing on a large, representative and … non-mothers who work and mothers who do not work are more likely to agree that pre-school children suffer if mothers work …

impact both younger and older children. The average treated student in our setting has an expected income reduction of $5 …

We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 to 6. In a unified experimental framework, we … game. We find that third-party punishment doubles cooperation rates in comparison to a control condition. Children also … influence of children's cognitive skills and parents' socioeconomic background on cooperation. …

fathers and mothers and their children by drawing on a unique dataset of 1,999 members of Bangladeshi families, including 911 … children, aged 6-17 years, and 544 pairs of mothers and fathers. We find a large degree of intergenerational persistence as the … economic preferences of mothers and fathers are significantly positively related to their children's economic preferences …

-old children. Using German panel data (SOEP), we show that unemployment of fathers and mothers is negatively associated with their … children's life satisfaction. When controlling for time-invariant individual heterogeneity, our results suggest that maternal … differential impacts between sons and daughters or between younger and older children. Further results suggest that the impact of …

risks analysis yields several striking results. 1) Females have only a 28% chance to die of cancer when they have children … unmarried males); 3) females with children have only a 34% risk to die of heart disease and 4) a 53% chance of dying from … infections (compared to females without children); 5) married men have an increased expectation of 23% to die of heart disease …

The COVID19 crisis has hit labor markets. School and child-care closures have put families with children in challenging … German workforce have children aged 14 or younger and estimate that 11 percent of workers and 8 percent of all working hours …