| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w18430
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 18430
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| The Friends Factor: How Students' Social Networks Affect Their Academic Achievement and Well-Being? |
| Victor Lavy; Edith Sand
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| 发表日期 | 2012-10-05
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| 出版年 | 2012
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | In this paper, we estimate the influence of social relationships on educational attainment and social outcomes of students in school. More specifically, we investigate how losing different types of social relationships during the transition from elementary to middle school affect students' academic progress and general well-being. We use social relationships identified by the students themselves in elementary school, as part of a unique aspect of the Tel Aviv school application process which allows sixth-grade students to designate their middle schools of choice and to list up to eight friends with whom they wish to attend that school. The lists create natural "friendship hierarchies" that we exploit in our analysis. We designate the three categories of requited and unrequited friendships that stem from these lists as follows: (1) reciprocal friends (students who list one another); and for those whose friendship requests did not match: (2) followers (those who listed fellow students as friends but were not listed as friends by these same fellow students) and (3) non-reciprocal friends (parallel to followers). Following students from elementary to middle school enables us to overcome potential selection bias by using pupil fixed-effect methodology. Our results suggest that the presence of reciprocal friends and followers in class has a positive and significant effect on test scores in English, math, and Hebrew. However, the number of friends in the social network beyond the first circle of reciprocal friends has no effect at all on students. In addition, the presence of non-reciprocal friends in class has a negative effect on a student's learning outcomes. We find that these effects have interesting patterns of heterogeneity by gender, ability, and age of students. In addition, we find that these various types of friendships have positive effects on other measures of well-being, including social and overall happiness in school, time allocated for homework, and whether one exhibits violent behavior. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics
; Economics of Information
; Labor Economics
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w18430
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/576106
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Victor Lavy,Edith Sand. The Friends Factor: How Students' Social Networks Affect Their Academic Achievement and Well-Being?. 2012.
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