Abstract Changes in the choice architecture, so-called nudges, have been employed in a
variety of contexts to alter people's behavior. Although nudging has gained a widespread …

About 15 years ago, economic experiments with children and adolescents were considered
as an extravagant niche of economic research. Since then, this type of research has …

We present results from the first study to examine the causal impact of early-childhood
education on the social preferences of children. We compare children who, at 3–4 years old …

The traditional view in economics takes preferences as exogenous inputs to economic
modeling. In contrast, a growing body of studies, driven by experimental methods and …

We study differences in intertemporal choices across language groups in an incentivized
experiment with 1154 children in a bilingual city. The sample consists of 86% of all primary …

Time preferences have been correlated with a range of life outcomes, yet little is known
about their early development. We conduct a field experiment to elicit time preferences of …

Abstract According to Chen's (2013) linguistic-savings hypothesis, languages which
grammatically separate the future and the present (like English or Italian) induce less future …

We examine the links between age, risk tolerance, and impatience in a large French
representative sample. We combine elicited preferences data based on an incentivized web …

We use the separation and later reunification of Germany after World War II to show that a
political regime shapes time preferences of its residents. Using two identification strategies …

We study the determinants of cooperation by letting children, aged 4–5, and their parents
play an experimental prisoner's dilemma game. We examine whether children's cooperation …