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That's what friends are for? The impact of peer characteristics on early school-leaving

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  • Traag, T.

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  • Lubbers, M.
  • van der Velden, R.K.W.

    (Research Centre for Educ and Labour Mark)

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In this paper we investigate if peer relations affect a student’s risk of early schoolleaving.We use the sociometric data collection from the Dutch “Secondary EducationPupil Cohort 1999†to identify peer relations in a sample of almost 20,000 students inthe first grade of secondary education (mean age 13). This information is matched todata on educational attainment from 1999 to 2010 for these students, to measure laterearly school-leaving by both the focal students as well as their peers. Our results showthat both being friends with future early school-leavers as well as popularity amongfuture early school-leavers increases the risk of students to be early school-leaverslater in their educational career while other characteristics of the peer group such asgender composition, ethnic composition, average (non)cognitive skills and averagesocioeconomic background have no effects on the risk of early school-leaving. And whilecharacteristics like gender, ethnicity and socio-economic background play an importantrole in peer selection, the future dropout status does not have a major impact on peerselection.
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  • Traag, T. & Lubbers, M. & van der Velden, R.K.W., 2012. "That's what friends are for? The impact of peer characteristics on early school-leaving," Research Memorandum 023, Maastricht University, Maastricht Research School of Economics of Technology and Organization (METEOR).
    • Handle: RePEc:unm:umamet:2012023
    DOI: 10.26481/umamet.2012023
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    1. Traag, T. & Marie, O. & van der Velden, R.K.W., 2010. "Social bonding, early school leaving, and delinquency," ROA Research Memorandum 014, Maastricht University, Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA).
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