Family and Peer Social Identity Effects on Schooling Attitudes and Performance

Jonathan Norris ()
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Jonathan Norris: University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Department of Economics

No 17-1, UNCG Economics Working Papers from University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Department of Economics

Abstract: An adolescent’s family and peers, impart incentives on education through social identity shaping attitudes about school and performance. I model identity related mechanisms from family and peer ideals about education in a network model of adolescent effort in school and link it empirically with spatial econometrics. Both groups influence attitudes and changes in family ideals create spill-overs in attitudes. Attitudes impact performance in school, and changes in attitudes influence performance over the network. us, targeting family and peer ideals and attitudes about school can positively impact an adolescent’s educational traits and outcomes; effects that in turn ripple across a school.

Keywords: Identity Economics; Peer Effects; Spatial Econometrics; Friendship Network (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C21 I21 J13 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 54 pages
Date: 2017-02-17
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