preference for both, mothers and fathers. That is, an increasing level of patience of parents is associated with a lower smoking … as well as time discounting of the parents are highly relevant in this transmission process. …

children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children …-Economic Panel Study. Our results show that parents who invest more in the upbringing of their children are more similar to them with … variables on the relationship between children and parents, family size, and the parents’ socioeconomic background. …

care provided to their parents and education expenditures for their children. The young enjoy their education, while the … period and that parents invest in the education of their children. We show that Becker’s rotten kids theorem holds for the … old may leave a bequest to their children. Within each period the three generations play a "game" inspired by Becker …

We study whether and how parents interfere paternalistically in their children's intertemporal decision-making. Based … on experiments with over 2,000 members of 610 families, we find that parents anticipate their children's present bias and … aim to mitigate it. Using a novel method to measure parental interference, we show that more than half of all parents are …

Do quot;family traditionsquot; influence bequest behavior? If an individual receives an inheritance from his parents …, is he more likely to give a bequest to his children, even after controlling for the boost in wealth conferred by the …

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 …