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

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  • Camille Terrier

    (a Department of Economics, University of Lausanne,1015 Lausanne, Switzerland;)

  • Daniel L. Chen

    (b Toulouse School of Economics, 31080 Toulouse, France;)

  • Matthias Sutter

    (c Experimental Economics Group, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods Bonn, 53113 Bonn, Germany;; d Department of Economics, University of Cologne, 50935 Cologne, Germany;; e Department of Public Finance, University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria)

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.

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  • Camille Terrier & Daniel L. Chen & Matthias Sutter, 2021. "COVID-19 within families amplifies the prosociality gap between adolescents of high and low socioeconomic status," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 118(46), pages 2110891118-, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:nas:journl:v:118:y:2021:p:e2110891118
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    1. Grimalda, Gianluca & Murtin, Fabrice & Pipke, David & Putterman, Louis & Sutter, Matthias, 2023. "The politicized pandemic: Ideological polarization and the behavioral response to COVID-19," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 156(C).
    2. Katharina Werner & Ludger Woessmann, 2021. "The Legacy of Covid-19 in Education," CESifo Working Paper Series 9358, CESifo.
    3. Silvia Angerer & E. Glenn Dutcher & Daniela Glätzle-Rützler & Philipp Lergetporer & Matthias Sutter, 2021. "The Formation of Risk Preferences Through Small-Scale Events," Discussion Paper Series of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods 2021_16, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods.
    4. Sule Alan & Gozde Corekcioglu & Matthias Sutter, 2023. "Improving Workplace Climate in Large Corporations: A Clustered Randomized Intervention," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 138(1), pages 151-203.

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