Can Mentoring Alleviate Family Disadvantage in Adolescence? A Field Experiment to Improve Labor-Market Prospects.

Autor/inn/en	Resnjanskij, Sven; Ruhose, Jens; Wiederhold, Simon; Wößmann, Ludger; Wedel, Katharina
Titel	Can Mentoring Alleviate Family Disadvantage in Adolescence? A Field Experiment to Improve Labor-Market Prospects. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Kann Mentoring die familiäre Benachteiligung im Jugendalter abmildern? Ein Feldversuch zur Verbesserung der Arbeitsmarktaussichten.
Quelle	In: Journal of political economy, 132 (2023) 3, 131 S. PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1537-534X
DOI	10.1086/726905
Schlagwörter	Benachteiligtenförderung; Hauptschule; Schüler; Erfolgskontrolle; Schulleistung; Mentoring; Mathematik; Arbeitsmarktchance; Berufsorientierung; Auswirkung; Benachteiligter Jugendlicher; Student; Deutschland
Abstract	"We study a mentoring program that aims to improve the labor-market prospects of school-attending adolescents from disadvantaged families by offering them a university-student mentor. Our RCT investigates program effectiveness on three outcome dimensions that are highly predictive of later labor-market success: math grades, patience/social skills, and labor-market orientation. For low-SES adolescents, the mentoring increases a combined index of the outcomes by over half a standard deviation after one year, with significant increases in each dimension. Part of the treatment effect is mediated by establishing mentors as attachment figures who provide guidance for the future. Effects on grades and labor-market orientation, but not on patience/social skills, persist three years after program start. By that time, the mentoring also improves early realizations of school-to-work transitions for low-SES adolescents. The mentoring is not effective for higher-SES adolescents. The results show that substituting lacking family support by other adults can help disadvantaged children at adolescent age." The study refers to the period 2016-2019. (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku)..
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2024/1