Arbeitspapier
Can Mentoring Alleviate Family Disadvantage in Adolscence? A Field Experiment to Improve Labor-Market Prospects
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 adolescents’ later labor-market success: math grades, patience/social skills, and labor-market orientation. For low-SES adolescents, the one-to-one mentoring increases a combined index of the outcomes by half a standard deviation after one year, with significant increases in each dimension. Part of the treatment effect is mediated by establishing mentors as attachment figures who provide guidance for the future. The mentoring is not effective for higher-SES adolescents. The results show that substituting lacking family support by other adults can help disadvantaged children at adolescent age.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 8870
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Education and Inequality
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
National Government Expenditures and Education
- Thema
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mentoring
disadvanted youths
adolescence
school performance
patience
social skills
labor-market orientation
field experiment
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Resnjanskij, Sven
Ruhose, Jens
Wiederhold, Simon
Woessmann, Ludger
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute (CESifo)
- (wo)
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Munich
- (wann)
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2021
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Resnjanskij, Sven
- Ruhose, Jens
- Wiederhold, Simon
- Woessmann, Ludger
- Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute (CESifo)
Entstanden
- 2021
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