Department of Economics, University of Lausanne,1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Toulouse School of Economics, 31080 Toulouse, France.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 Nov 16;118(46). doi: 10.1073/pnas.2110891118.
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.
新冠疫情对社会经济地位较低的群体(SES)的健康、教育和劳动力市场造成的影响比 SES 较高的群体更为严重。然而,对于新冠疫情是否对非认知技能也产生了不同的影响,这些技能对于生活结果很重要,我们知之甚少。利用大流行前后的面板数据,我们表明新冠疫情影响了一种关键的非认知技能,即亲社会行为。虽然亲社会行为在大流行前就已经较低,但我们表明,家庭内的新冠病毒感染使法高中高 SES 和低 SES 学生之间的亲社会行为差距扩大了近两倍,与新冠疫情前相比。