Popularity
What makes you popular among your high-school peers? And what are the labor market returns to popularity? We investigate these questions using an objective measure of popularity derived from sociometric theory: the number of friendship nom- inations received from schoolmates. We provide novel evidence that early family en- vironment, school composition and school size play a signicant role in determining popularity. We show that the estimated wage return to one additional nomination is about 2 percent the popularity premium. This amounts to roughly 40 percent of the return to one more year of education. A revised version of this paper is published in the Fall 2013 issue of the Journal of Human Resources.
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2009
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Authors: | Conti, Gabriella ; Galeotti, Andrea ; Mueller, Gerrit ; Pudney, Stephen |
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Colchester : University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) |
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freely available
Series: | ISER Working Paper Series ; 2009-03 |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Type of publication (narrower categories): | Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Other identifiers: | hdl:10419/92002 [Handle] RePEc:ese:iserwp:2009-03 [RePEc] |
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331644
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