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Date: April 29, 2024 Mon
Time: 11:47 pm
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Results for school achievement
1 results foundAuthor: Billings, Stephen B. Title: Schools, Neighborhoods, and the Long-Run Effect of Crime-Prone Peers Summary: This paper examines how elementary-aged peers affect cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes from adolescence to adulthood. We identify effects by exploiting within-school and within-neighborhood variation in the proportion of peers with an arrested parent. Results indicate exposure to these peers reduces achievement and increases antisocial behavior during middle and high school. More importantly, we estimate that a five percentage point increase in school and neighborhood crime-prone peers increases arrest rates at age 19 - 21 by 6.5 and 2.6 percent, respectively. Additional evidence suggests these effects are due to attending school with crime-prone peers, rather than living in the same neighborhood. Details: Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2019. 53p. Source: Internet Resource: NBER Working Paper No. 25730: Accessed May 7, 2019 at: https://www.nber.org/papers/w25730.pdf Year: 2019 Country: United States URL: https://www.nber.org/papers/w25730.pdf Shelf Number: 155681 Keywords: Antisocial Behavior Neighborhoods and Crime Peer Influence School AchievementSocial Networks |