Peer Influence on College Aspirations with Initial Aspirations Controlled
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5620106 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jere Cohen (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 728 |
| Publication date | 1983-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1224 • E-ISSN: 1939-8271 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2094931 |
| OpenAlex | W2039921623 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 29 |
| References cited | 12 |
Previous estimates of high school peer influence on college aspirations have used peer similarity as an indicator of peer influence but have neglected to control for peers' initial similarity in aspirations at the beginning of their friendships. The present analysis employs such a control, and finds that prior estimates of peer influence have been inflated by over 100%. High school peer influence on college aspirations is a weak effect with a path coefficient between . /0 and .15 in the models tested
Demographic economics · Developmental psychology · Economics · Higher Education Research Studies · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Psychology · School Choice and Performance · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 29 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,69 |
| Citation span | 1984 - 2021 (38) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 29 |