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 …

Inequality of opportunity strikes when two children with the same academic performance are sent to different quality … children are significantly less likely to enter the academic track if they come from low socio-economic status (SES) families …, even after conditioning on prior measures of school performance. We then provide causal evidence that a low …

Inequality of opportunity strikes when two children with the same academic performance are sent to different quality … children are significantly less likely to enter the academic track if they come from low socio-economic status (SES) families …, even after conditioning on prior measures of school performance. We then provide causal evidence that a low …

-Hyperbolic Discounting ; Preschool Children …

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 …

' 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 …

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 …

fundamental economic preferences such as time, risk, and social preferences. In a sample of preschool children we find that longer …