The foundations for successful child development are established in early childhood. Two
main policy approaches for strengthening these foundations have been subsidized …

Social scientists have increasingly turned to the experimental method to understand human
behaviour. One critical issue that makes solving social problems difficult is scaling up the …

We evaluate the effect of an educational program that aims to build social cohesion in
ethnically mixed schools by develo** perspective-taking ability in children. The program is …

Human behaviour is complex and multifaceted, and is studied by a broad range of
disciplines across the social and natural sciences. To mark our 5th anniversary, we asked …

Many applied economic settings involve trade-offs between in-group members and
strangers. To better understand decision making in these contexts, this paper measures and …

Books shape how children learn about society and norms, in part through representation of
different characters. We use computational tools to characterize representation in children's …

We examine the attitudes of the wealthy towards government redistribution using a large
and diverse sample of individuals from the top 5% of the income and wealth distribution in …

In the past several decades, the experimental method has lent deep insights into economics.
One area that has contributed is the experimental study of children, where advances as …

We study the long-term effects of a randomized intervention targeting children's socio-
emotional skills. The classroom-based intervention for primary school children has positive …

Inequality of opportunity strikes when two children with the same academic performance are
sent to different quality schools because their parents differ in socio-economic status. Based …