We present evidence on the role of the social environment for the development of gender differences in competitiveness and earnings expectations. First, we document that the gender gap in competitiveness and earnings expectations is more pronounced among adolescents with low socioeconomic status...

We study a mentoring program that aims to improve the labor-market prospects of school-attending adolescents from disadvantaged families by offering them a university-student mentor. Our RCT investigates program effectiveness on three outcome dimensions that are highly predictive of...

Inequality of opportunity strikes when two children with the same academic performance are sent to diff erent quality schools because their parents di ffer in socio-economic status. Based on a novel dataset for Germany, we demonstrate that children are signi ficantly less likely to enter the...

Immer mehr Menschen engagieren sich freiwillig außerhalb der klassischen Organisationen und Strukturen. Auch im Bildungsbereich ist seit Jahren ein Trend zu individualisierten Formen des Engagements zu beobachten. Zentral sind dabei verschiedene Formen von Mentoring, Patenschaften und...