gender differences emerge with age and by gender of opponent. Our samples contain 186 children (aged 10–12), 310 teenagers … for children, males begin to wager substantially more as they become teenagers, leading to the emergence of the gender gap …

educational attainment of dependent children. We add to this literature and examine children's secondary school track choice in … paternal risk preferences but a strong negative impact of maternal risk aversion on children's enrollment in upper secondary …

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

We report results from an incentivized laboratory experiment to provide controlled evidence on the causal effects of …: those participating to an experiment with no reference to alcohol, those exposed to the possibility of consuming alcohol but … the willingness to pay and the potential misperception of probabilities as elicited in the experiment, we do not detect …

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

development. We find significant impacts on cognitive development in children 0-60 months, with an average effect size of 0.13 SD …. We show differential impacts by type of transfer: 0-5-year-old children from families receiving the "health" transfer …, which targeted families with 0-5-year-old children only, benefited significantly from the program, whereas 0-5 year-olds in …

We conduct a field experiment in 31 primary schools in England to test the effectiveness of different temporary …

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