We study gender differences in the willingness to compete in a large-scale experiment with 1,035 children and teenagers …, aged three to eighteen years. Using an easy math task for children older than eight years and a running task for the …

children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children …, as well as rich information about parental efforts in the upbringing of their children from the German Socio …-Economic Panel Study. Our results show that parents who invest more in the upbringing of their children are more similar to them with …

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 … following aspects: rationality of choices, risk preferences, time preferences, social preferences, cooperation, and …

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 …

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 …

prospects in a laboratory experiment. Under low stakes, we find the typical risk seeking behavior for small probabilities …

present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants make decisions … and across gender. Our results show that when children and teenagers grow older, inequality aversion becomes a gradually …

the behavioral relevance of this survey measure by conducting a complementary field experiment, based on a representative …

participants in a laboratory experiment represent the preferences of the population from which they are recruited. To answer this … question, we measured the preferences of 1,173 students in a classroom experiment. Separately, we invited all students to … participate in a laboratory experiment. We find that the social and risk preferences of students who attend the laboratory …