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 …

We use novel data on nearly 6,000 children and adolescents aged 6 to 16 that combine incen-tivized measures of social …, time, and risk preferences with rich information on child behavior and family environment to study whether children … of children's pref-erences for their prosociality, educational achievement, risky behaviors, emotional health, and …

We use a novel method to elicit and measure higher order risk preferences (prudence and temperance) in an experiment …

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

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 …

significantly predicts classroom misbehavior in middle and high school students. …