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 …

We conduct a randomized evaluation of the effect of village-based schools on children's academic performance using a … sample of 31 villages and 1,490 children in rural northwestern Afghanistan. The program significantly increases enrollment … and test scores among all children, eliminates the 21 percentage point gender disparity in enrollment, and dramatically …

We evaluate a program that aims to improve children's reading skills by providing classes with age-appropriate reading … material and incentivizing children to read through a 31 day read-a-thon. During the read-a-thon, the program significantly … increases the propensity of children to read, causing 20 percent more children to have read a book in the last week at school …

enrollment of all children between the ages of 5 and 12 by 20 percentage points and increased their test scores by 0.45 standard … deviations. The change in test scores for those children caused to attend school by the program is 2.2 standard deviations. We …

from a bilingual city in Northern Italy. We find that German-speaking primary school children are about 46% more likely … than Italian-speaking children to delay gratification in an intertemporal choice experiment. The difference remains …

- to eleven-year old primary school children in the city of Meran, we find that cooperation generally increases with age …, but that the gap between cooperation among in-group members and cooperation towards children speaking another language is …

About 15 years ago, economic experiments with children and adolescents were considered as an extravagant niche of … increase of papers, we provide the first overview of economic experiments with children and adolescents. We focus on the …

We study with a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation … experiment is related to children's risk attitudes and intertemporal choices. Examining such a relationship is motivated by …

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 …