program under Randomized Control Trial (RCT) conditions. Half of 181 volunteer primary schools in England were randomly …

We study a mentoring program that aims to improve the labor-market prospects of school-attending adolescents from …-market orientation. For low-SES adolescents, the one-to-one mentoring increases a combined index of the outcomes by half a standard … mentors as attachment figures who provide guidance for the future. The mentoring is not effective for higher-SES adolescents …

schools because their parents di ffer in socio-economic status. Based on a novel dataset for Germany, we demonstrate that …-intensity mentoring program can improve long-run education outcomes of low SES children and reduce inequality of opportunity. Low SES … mentoring relationship aff ects both parents and children and has positive long-term implications for children's educational …