Do Classmate Effects Fade Out?

Robert Bifulco, Jason Fletcher, Sun Jung Oh and Stephen Ross

No 18648, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, this study examines the impact of high school cohort composition on the educational and labor market outcomes of individuals during their early 20s and again during their late 20s and early 30s. We find that the positive effects of having more high school classmates with a college educated mother on college attendance in the years immediately following high school fade out as students reach their later 20s and early 30s, and are not followed by comparable effects on college completion and labor market outcomes.

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Date: 2012-12
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Published as Labour Economics Volume 29, August 2014, Pages 83–90 Cover image Do high school peers have persistent effects on college attainment and other life outcomes? Robert Bifulcoa, , , Jason M. Fletcherb, 1, , Sun Jung Oha, 2, , Stephen L. Rossc, 3,

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