کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
354613 1434840 2011 7 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Peer effects on high school aspirations: Evidence from a sample of close and not-so-close friends
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
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Peer effects on high school aspirations: Evidence from a sample of close and not-so-close friends
چکیده انگلیسی

In this paper we investigate how schoolmates influence high school dropout intentions in Catalonia, Spain. Our analysis uses self-reported friends to identify possible peers by assuming that peer influence flows in one direction in cases where one student identifies another as a friend, but the other does not reciprocate. We first estimate the effects of education aspirations of non-reciprocating friends on students’ own education aspirations, with and without conditioning on a large set of personality and cognitive characteristics. We then investigate the extent to which the estimated effects are associated with friends’ height, weight, BMI, gender and cognitive ability. The estimated impact of non-reciprocating peers’ dropout intentions is small and generally not statistically significant: a 10 percentage point increase in the fraction of non-reciprocating peers that intend to drop out increases students’ chances of dropping out by about .2 percentage points.

Research highlights
► We use self-reported friends in school to identify possible peer effects.
► A non-reciprocating peer is someone mentioned as a friend but does not mention the other as a friend.
► Peer influence likely flows more in one direction from non-reciprocating friend to friend.
► The impact of non-reciprocating peers’ dropout intentions is small and generally insignificant.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Economics of Education Review - Volume 30, Issue 4, August 2011, Pages 575–581
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