children and use this tool to show that children from high socioeconomic status (SES) families are more accurate in their self …-assessment, compared to children from low SES families. To move beyond correlational evidence, we then exploit the exogenous variation of … participation in a mentoring program designed to enrich the social environment of children. We document that the mentoring program …

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 …

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 …

, reducing hospitalization costs and the foregone income of mothers and improving the long-run socioeconomic outcomes of children …

' prosocial attitudes are systematically related to elementary school children's prosociality. In a second step, we present … evidence on a randomlyassigned 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 …