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 …

We measure the prevalence of discrimination between Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children attending school in … Jordan. Using a simple sharing experiment, we find only little discrimination. Among the Jordanian children, however, we see …

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 …

children in the medium-run. I combine detailed household-level data on more than 36,000 children with geo-coded information on … 0.13 standard deviations and lowers cognitive and behavioral skills of children. Leveraging information on the severity …

Over the past decades, the share of very young children in daycare has increased significantly in many OECD countries … of a large daycare expansion in Germany on children's age-specific mental and physical health outcomes. Based on a unique … increases the prevalence of respiratory and infectious diseases and healthcare consumption when entering daycare (1-2 years) by …

syndrome. Furthermore, the analysis considers the role of two key economic variables: consumption and leisure via the standard …

Inequality of opportunity strikes when two children with the same academic performance are sent to diff erent quality … children are signi ficantly less likely to enter the academic track if they come from low socio-economic status (SES) families …-intensity mentoring program can improve long-run education outcomes of low SES children and reduce inequality of opportunity. Low SES …