Impatience among preschool children and their mothers

Economics Letters

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 493-495

  Kosse, Fabian ^a   Pfeiffer, Friedhelm ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

Author keywords

Field experiments; Impatience; Intergenerational transmission; Time preferences

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856070583     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2011.12.115     Document Type: Article

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