Covid-19 within families amplifies the prosociality gap between adolescents of high and low socioeconomic status
Daniel L. Chen, Matthias Sutter and Camille Terrier
COVID-19 has had worse health, education, and labor market effects on groups with low socioeconomic status (SES) than on those with high SES. Little is known, however, about whether COVID-19 has also had differential effects on noncognitive skills that are important for life outcomes. Using panel data from before and during the pandemic, we show that COVID-19 affects one key noncognitive skill, that is, prosociality. While prosociality is already lower for low-SES students prior to the pandemic, we show that COVID-19 infections within families amplify the prosociality gap between French high school students of high and low SES by almost tripling its size in comparison to pre-COVID-19 levels. ? 2021 National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
1 November 2021
PNAS 118(46) 2021
https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2110891118
This Journal article is published under the centre's Education programme.