School friendship networks, homophily and multiculturalism: evidence from European countries
| Autor: | Chiara Rapallini, Aldo Rustichini, Nicola Campigotto |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Economics and Econometrics
4. Education media_common.quotation_subject education 05 social sciences Immigration Ethnic group Homophily Country of origin Friendship Multiculturalism 0502 economics and business Sociology 050207 economics 10. No inequality Socioeconomic status Social psychology 050205 econometrics Demography media_common Social policy |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Population Economics. 35:1687-1722 |
| ISSN: | 1432-1475 0933-1433 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s00148-020-00819-w |
| Popis: | This paper investigates the determinants of school friendship networks among adolescents, proposing a model of network formation and estimating it using a sample of about 10,000 secondary school students in four countries: England, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden. We test the idea that networks arise according to homophily along many characteristics (gender, school achievement and ethnic and cultural backgrounds), and assess the relative importance of each factor. In addition to gender, we find that country of origin, generational status and religion predict friendship for foreign-born students. For individuals born in the survey country, ties depend on a broader set of factors, including socioeconomic status and school achievement. In sum, homophilic preferences go considerably beyond ethnicity. Multiculturalism, which gives prominence to ethnic backgrounds, risks emphasising the differences in that dimension at the expense of affinity in others. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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