▽Empirical Micro Research Semianr ●04/03 10:04 "The Formation of Economic Preferences" [Slides]Abstract We use unique panel data on children’s economic preferences to study preference formation before the onset of adulthood. Our data encompass incentivized experiments eliciting time, risk, and social preferences as well as IQ tests with more than 4,500 children and adolescents aged 7-18 and their parents. We go beyond previous cross-sectional
