Economic Preferences across Generations and Family Clusters: A Large-Scale Experiment in a Developing Country
对孟加拉国农村542个家庭的大规模实验发现，父母的风险、时间和社会偏好与子女的偏好显著正相关，且首次将家庭分为耐心、风险容忍、亲社会型与急躁、风险厌恶、恶意型两类，分类与社会经济背景相关。
Our large-scale experiment with 542 families from rural Bangladesh finds substantial intergenerational persistence of economic preferences. Both mothers' and fathers' risk, time, and social preferences are significantly (and largely to the same degree) positively correlated with their children's economic preferences, even when controlling for personality traits and socioeconomic background. We discuss possible transmission channels and are the first to classify all families into one of two clusters, with either relatively patient, risk-tolerant, and prosocial members or relatively impatient, risk averse, and spiteful members. Classifications correlate with socioeconomic background variables. We find that our results differ from evidence for rich countries.