The shock on human capital caused by COVID-19 is likely to have long lasting consequences, especially for children of … associations. In addition, we account for educational disruptions related to household income shocks. Our findings show that … of the most vulnerable could be seriously affected. In particular, the likelihood of children from low educated families …

. Second, we show that a randomized mentoring intervention that exposes low-SES children to predominantly female role models …

' prosocial attitudes are systematically related to elementary school children's prosociality. In a second step, we present … evidence on a randomlyassigned variation of the social environment, providing children with a mentor for the duration of one … gap in prosociality between low and high SES children. A mediation analysis of the observed treatment effect suggests that …

This paper explores inequalities in IQ and economic preferences between children from high and low socio …-economic status (SES) families. We document that children from high SES families are more intelligent, patient and altruistic, as well …

average, secondary school completion rates decrease by 12 percentage points overall and by 16 points for children with low …-educated parents. Interestingly, in most countries the gender gap diminishes because for men the projected decrease in secondary school …. disadvantaged children, earnings inequality could increase between one and four Gini points, depending on the assumptions. …