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

Using experimental data of children and their mothers, this paper explores the intergenerational relationship of …

and quality of time parents spend with their children, the mother's IQ and economic preferences, a child's initial … measure a family's SES by the mother's and father's average years of education and household income. Our results show that … children from families with higher SES are more patient, tend to be more altruistic and less likely to be risk seeking, and …

-hyperbolic discounting ; preschool children …

mothers’ prosocial attitudes are systematically related to elementary school children’s prosociality. In a second step, we … present evidence on a randomly assigned variation of the social environment, providing children with a mentor for the duration … observed developmental gap in prosociality between low and high SES children. Our findings suggest that the program serves as a …

children. As our main result, we provide causal evidence on the effect of the social environment by randomly enrolling children … in a year-long mentoring programme. We find that, about four years after the end of the programme, mentored children are …

mentoring relationship affects both parents and children and has positive long-term implications for children's educational …Inequality of opportunity strikes when two children with the same academic performance are sent to different quality … schools because their parents differ in socio-economic status. Based on a novel dataset for Germany, we demonstrate 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 …