| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w11334 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 11334 |
| An Empirical Analysis of 'Acting White' | |
| Roland G. Fryer, Jr.; Paul Torelli | |
| 发表日期 | 2005-05-16 |
| 出版年 | 2005 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | There is a debate among social scientists regarding the existence of a peer externality commonly referred to as 'acting white.' Using a newly available data set (the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health), which allows one to construct an objective measure of a student's popularity, we demonstrate that there are large racial differences in the relationship between popularity and academic achievement; our (albeit narrow) definition of 'acting white.' The effect is intensified among high achievers and in schools with more interracial contact, but non-existent among students in predominantly black schools or private schools. The patterns in the data appear most consistent with a two-audience signaling model in which investments in education are thought to be indicative of an individual's opportunity costs of peer group loyalty. Other models we consider, such as self-sabotage among black youth or the presence of an oppositional culture, all contradict the data in important ways. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w11334 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/568973 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Roland G. Fryer, Jr.,Paul Torelli. An Empirical Analysis of 'Acting White'. 2005. |
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