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Under pressure? The effect of peers on outcomes of young adults

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Black, Sandra E. 
Devereux, Paul J. 
Salvanes, Kjell G. 
Uri
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2651
Date Issued
May 2010
Date Available
10T17:07:40Z December 2010
Abstract
A variety of public campaigns, including the “Just Say No” campaign of the 1980s and 1990s that encouraged teenagers to “Just Say No to Drugs”, are based on the premise that teenagers are very susceptible to peer influences. Despite this, very little is known about the effect of school peers on the long-run outcomes of teenagers. This is primarily due to two factors: the absence of information on peers merged with long-run outcomes of individuals and, equally important, the difficulty of separately identifying the role of peers. This paper uses data on the population of Norway and idiosyncratic variation in cohort composition within schools to examine the role of peer composition in 9th grade on longer-run outcomes such as IQ scores at age 18, teenage childbearing, post-compulsory schooling educational track, adult labor market status, and earnings. We find that outcomes are influenced by the proportion of females in the grade, and these effects differ for men and women. Other peer variables (average age, average mother’s education) have little impact on the outcomes of teenagers.
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Type of Material
Working Paper
Publisher
University College Dublin. School of Economics
University College Dublin. Geary Institute
Series
UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series
WP 10 16
UCD Geary Institute Discussion Paper Series
WP2010/24
Subject – LCSH
Peer pressure in adolescence
Young adults--Social conditions
Young adults--Economic conditions
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English
Status of Item
Not peer reviewed
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