Publication title: Parental Paternalism and Patience
Authors:  Lukas Kiessling, Shyamal Chowdhury, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, Matthias Sutter, Published in January 2021 IZA DP No. 14030 

Abstract: We study whether and how parents interfere paternalistically in their children's intertemporal decision-making. Based on experiments with over 2,000 members of 610 families, we find that parents anticipate their children's present bias and aim to mitigate it. Using a novel method to measure parental interference, we show that more than half of all parents are willing to pay money to override their children's choices. Parental interference predicts more intensive parenting styles and a lower intergenerational transmission of patience. The latter is driven by interfering parents not transmitting their own present bias, but molding their children's preferences towards more time-consistent choices.

1. Project Name: Experimental Household Survey-2020

Survey Details:
Survey districts:

• In 4 upazilas of Netrakona district
• In 2 upazilas of Chandpur district
• In 3 upazilas of Gopalganj district
• In 2 upazilas of Sunamganj district

Survey sample:

• Household survey sample- 610
• Individual household member survey of 2000 respondents

2. Project name: Savar Tannery Workers on the Impact of Covid-19, 2020

Survey Details:
Survey Area:

• Savar Upazila tannery industry area

Survey sample:

• Tannary workers sample- 400 individual member

3. Project name: Garment industry working to improve conditions for workers in BEPZ-2021

Survey Details:
Survey Area:

• Uttara EPZ, Nilphamary (one factory)
• Cumilla EPZ, Cumilla (Three factories)
• Korean EPZ, Chattogram (One factory)
• Karnaphuli EPZ, Chattogram (Five factories)

Survey sample:

• Garments Worker sample- 400 Individual member