The economics of parenting

M Doepke, G Sorrenti, F Zilibotti - Annual Review of Economics, 2019‏ - annualreviews.org
Parenting decisions are among the most consequential choices that people make
throughout their lives. Starting with the work of pioneers such as Gary Becker, economists …

Cohort profile update–overview of over 35 years of research in the Dortmund Nutritional and Anthropometric Longitudinally Designed (DONALD) study

I Perrar, U Alexy, U Nöthlings - European Journal of Nutrition, 2024‏ - Springer
Purpose To provide an update on the cohort profile of the DOrtmund Nutritional and
Anthropometric Longitudinally Designed (DONALD) study, including objectives, study …

[HTML][HTML] Economic behavior of children and adolescents–A first survey of experimental economics results

M Sutter, C Zoller, D Glätzle-Rützler - European Economic Review, 2019‏ - Elsevier
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 …

The formation of prosociality: causal evidence on the role of social environment

F Kosse, T Deckers, P **er… - Journal of Political …, 2020‏ - journals.uchicago.edu
This study presents evidence on the role of social environment for the formation of
prosociality. We show that socioeconomic status (SES) as well as intensity of mother-child …

IQ, expectations, and choice

F D'acunto, D Hoang, M Paloviita… - The Review of Economic …, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
We use administrative and survey-based micro data to study the relationship between
cognitive abilities (IQ), the formation of inflation expectations, and the consumption plans of …

Higher socioeconomic status does not predict decreased prosocial behavior in a field experiment

J Andreoni, N Nikiforakis, J Stoop - Nature communications, 2021‏ - nature.com
Does higher socioeconomic status predict decreased prosocial behavior? Methodological
issues such as the reliance of survey studies on self-reported measures of prosociality, the …

Predicting social tip** and norm change in controlled experiments

J Andreoni, N Nikiforakis, S Siegenthaler - Proceedings of the National …, 2021‏ - pnas.org
The ability to predict when societies will replace one social norm for another can have
significant implications for welfare, especially when norms are detrimental. A popular theory …

Team players: How social skills improve team performance

B Weidmann, DJ Deming - Econometrica, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Most jobs require teamwork. Are some people good team players? In this paper, we design
and test a new method for identifying individual contributions to team production. We …

Inequality's economic and social roots: the role of social networks and homophily

MO Jackson - Available at SSRN 3795626, 2021‏ - papers.ssrn.com
I discuss economic and social sources of inequality and elaborate on the role of social
networks in inequality, economic immobility, and economic inefficiencies. The lens of social …

The economics of climate change with endogenous preferences

L Mattauch, C Hepburn, F Spuler, N Stern - Resource and Energy …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Avoiding unmanageable climate change implies that global greenhouse gas emissions
must be reduced rapidly. Carbon prices and technological development are essential to …