Open AccessCOVID-19 within families amplifies the prosociality gap between adolescents of high and low socioeconomic status
Author(s) -
Camille Terrier,
Daniel L. Chen,
Matthias Sutter
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
proceedings of the national academy of sciences of the united states of america
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.011
H-Index - 771
eISSN - 1091-6490
pISSN - 0027-8424
DOI - 10.1073/pnas.2110891118
Subject(s) - socioeconomic status , covid-19 , psychology , prosocial behavior , developmental psychology , medicine , environmental health , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , virology , pathology , population , outbreak
Significance 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.