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| author | Lleras-Muney, Adriana Miller, Matthew Sheng, Shuyang Sovero, Veronica |
| author_facet | Lleras-Muney, Adriana Miller, Matthew Sheng, Shuyang Sovero, Veronica |
| contents | We investigate the returns to adolescent friendships on earnings in adulthood using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. Because both education and friendships are jointly determined in adolescence, OLS estimates of their returns are likely biased. We implement a novel procedure to obtain bounds on the causal returns to friendships: we assume that the returns to schooling range from 5 to 15% (based on prior literature), and instrument for friendships using similarity in age among peers. Having one more friend in adolescence increases earnings between 7 and 14%, substantially more than OLS estimates would suggest. |
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| publishDate | 2022 |
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| spellingShingle | Party On: The Labor Market Returns to Social Networks in Adolescence Lleras-Muney, Adriana Miller, Matthew Sheng, Shuyang Sovero, Veronica Econometrics We investigate the returns to adolescent friendships on earnings in adulthood using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. Because both education and friendships are jointly determined in adolescence, OLS estimates of their returns are likely biased. We implement a novel procedure to obtain bounds on the causal returns to friendships: we assume that the returns to schooling range from 5 to 15% (based on prior literature), and instrument for friendships using similarity in age among peers. Having one more friend in adolescence increases earnings between 7 and 14%, substantially more than OLS estimates would suggest. |
| title | Party On: The Labor Market Returns to Social Networks in Adolescence |
| topic | Econometrics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.09426 |