Conti, Gabriella and Galeotti, Andrea and Mueller, Gerrit and Pudney, Stephen Popularity. [["eprint_typename_scholarly-edition" not defined]]
Conti, Gabriella and Galeotti, Andrea and Mueller, Gerrit and Pudney, Stephen Popularity. [["eprint_typename_scholarly-edition" not defined]]
Conti, Gabriella and Galeotti, Andrea and Mueller, Gerrit and Pudney, Stephen Popularity. [["eprint_typename_scholarly-edition" not defined]]
Abstract
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.
| Item Type: | ["eprint_typename_scholarly-edition" not defined] |
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics, Department of Faculty of Social Sciences > Institute for Social and Economic Research |
| SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
| Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Nov 2013 15:46 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Jan 2022 00:40 |
| URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/8546 |
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