Peer Effects on Educational Aspirations [védés előtt]
The thesis focuses on the influence of friends on multiple measures of students' educational aspirations in Hungarian primary schools before students are distributed to stratified tracks. The dissertation discusses and examines various mechanisms through which friends can influence students' aspirations, such as the adaptation to norms, values, and attitudes shared by friends and the potential effect of having access to the educational resources of friends' parents. The dissertation also considers the contribution of friendship selection to friends' similar aspirations. 1. The first empirical chapter of the dissertation examined the effects of social influence and selection on academic ambitions and achievement in two school subjects: Hungarian literature and mathematics. Using longitudinal social network models, the analysis disentangled social influence on academic ambitions from friendship selection based on academic ambitions. The study found that changes in adolescents' academic ambitions were related to the ambitions of their friends. Nevertheless, the mechanisms underlying the tendency towards similarity were slightly different for the two subjects. In Hungarian literature, the attractiveness of friends with high ambitions was more pronounced than that of friends with low ambitions, while the opposite process was observed in mathematics. Academic achievement seemed to be a relevant attribute for friendship selection, but only in Hungarian literature. 2. The second empirical study investigated the influence of friends on the secondary school track preferences of Hungarian adolescents. The results indicated that peers could influence the adjustment of adolescents' educational preferences through their parental resources, as having friends with at least one parent with a tertiary education could motivate students to adjust their preferences towards the grammar school track. The average preferences of friends did not have a direct positive effect on preferences for the grammar school track, while having ...
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2023
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Authors: | Vit, Eszter |
Subject: | Oktatás |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
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Type of publication (narrower categories): | Thesis |
Language: | Hungarian ; English |
Notes: | Vit, Eszter (2023) Peer Effects on Educational Aspirations [védés előtt]. Doktori (PhD) értekezés, Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem, Szociológia és Kommunikációtudomány Doktori Iskola. |
Source: | BASE |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014413165
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