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Why Do Friends Have Similar Educational Expectations? Separating Influence and Selection Effects

Warum haben Freunde ähnliche Bildungserwartungen? Trennung von Einfluss- und Selektionseffekten
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Kretschmer, David
Roth, Tobias

Abstract

The influence of friends in shaping students' educational expectations has received considerable theoretical and empirical attention in past research. However, few studies have directly tackled the methodological problems associated with estimating such influence effects. In particular, the separati... view more

The influence of friends in shaping students' educational expectations has received considerable theoretical and empirical attention in past research. However, few studies have directly tackled the methodological problems associated with estimating such influence effects. In particular, the separation of selection effects - with students selecting friends with similar educational expectations - from influence effects has remained elusive. In this study, we therefore investigate whether friend influence persists once we account for selection effects and other confounding network-related processes. In addition, we quantify the contribution of selection and influence to the similarity of educational expectations among friends. We rely on two-wave longitudinal data on 1,821 German secondary school students in 77 classrooms and multilevel random-coefficients stochastic actor-oriented models for the coevolution of networks and behaviour. Our results demonstrate that both selection and influence contribute to expectation-based similarity and that selection effects are substantial. This shows that without explicitly accounting for selection, estimates of friend influence effects are likely to be biased.... view less

Keywords
education; friendship; peer group; school success; secondary education lower level; social network; course of education; Federal Republic of Germany

Classification
Sociology of Education

Free Keywords
Bildungserwartungen; Peers; quantitative method; Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Survey in Four European Countries (CILS4EU)

Document language
English

Publication Year
2020

Page/Pages
p. 201-217

Journal
European Sociological Review, 37 (2020) 2

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaa042

ISSN
0266-7215

Status
Postprint; peer reviewed

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Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications


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