Arbeitspapier
Mentoring and Schooling Decisions: Causal Evidence
Inequality of opportunity strikes when two children with the same academic performance are sent to different quality schools because their parents differ in socio-economic status. Based on a novel dataset for Germany, we demonstrate that 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-intensity mentoring program can improve long-run education outcomes of low SES children and reduce inequality of opportunity. Low SES children, who were randomly assigned to a mentor for one year are 20 percent more likely to enter a high track program. The mentoring relationship affects both parents and children and has positive long-term implications for children's educational trajectories.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 13387
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Design of Experiments: General
Education and Inequality
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
- Thema
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mentoring
childhood intervention programs
education
human capital investments
inequality of opportunity
socio-economic status
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Falk, Armin
Kosse, Fabian
Pinger, Pia
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
- (wo)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2020
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:46 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Falk, Armin
- Kosse, Fabian
- Pinger, Pia
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2020
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