' 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 of one … gap in prosociality between low and high SES children. A mediation analysis of the observed treatment effect suggests that …

Immigrant children often face educational disadvantages that stem from their parents' decision-making. For example, in … citizenship or not. We find that the policy caused immigrant parents to (i) send their children to preschool more often; (ii … many immigrant-receiving countries, immigrants are less likely than the native-born to enroll their children in preschool …

investigate the mechanisms behind this relationship using data on German pre-teen students. We show that (i) taller children are … better recommendations to taller students. This holds even when controlling for academic achievement and parental background … respect to education policy, our findings suggest that early school tracking might increase disadvantages for students with …

begin with the fact that parents from educationally disadvantaged households are less able to support their children by … reading to them. Children from educationally disadvan-taged households attend early childhood education less often; their … parents have greater difficulty finding a place in a day-care centre, have less contact with teachers at schools and are often …

alleviate this problem. On the contrary, its two central elements, an expansion of the pension claims of mothers whose children …