Kevin Zollman, game theorist and Carnegie Mellon professor, discusses how modern parenting involves structural information asymmetries where children hold private knowledge.
“One of the fundamental problems that modern parents face is the fact that in some respects, kids know more about what's going on in the kids' lives than the parents do.”
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