Friends’ plans for college and adolescents’ educational expectations: an instrumental variable approach

Friends are an important influence on adolescents’ educational outcomes. However, because of their similarity on numerous attributes, it is difficult to estimate whether friends influence each other, or whether they select friends who are similar to them. To address this endogeneity, this study uses...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brian V. Carolan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2018-07-01
Series:International Journal of Adolescence and Youth
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02673843.2017.1371615