COVID-19 within families amplifies the prosociality gap between adolescents of high and low socioeconomic status

Camille Terrier, Daniel L. Chen and Matthias Sutter
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Daniel L. Chen: b Toulouse School of Economics, 31080 Toulouse, France;

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021, vol. 118, issue 46, e2110891118

Abstract: Noncognitive skills are important for lifetime outcomes. Here, we study how COVID-19 infections affect the prosociality—one key noncognitive skill with important relations to labor market outcomes—of French high school students. We put a major focus on the question whether COVID-19 has a differential effect on students from low or high socioeconomic status (SES). While it is known by now that COVID-19 has had more negative health and economic effects on people with low SES, the effects on noncognitive skills have not been studied so far. We find that COVID-19 within families amplifies the gap in prosociality between adolescents of high and low SES.

Keywords: COVID-19; prosociality; socioeconomic status; experiment; France (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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