Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Jonathan Norris
Author-Name-First: Jonathan
Author-Name-Last: Norris
Author-Email: jonathan.norris@strath.ac.uk
Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Economics, University of Strathclyde
Title: Peers, parents and attitudes about school
Abstract: Educational attitudes are an important component of adolescent development linked to long-term educational success and as a component of noncognitive skills.  This study focuses on peer and parent roles in shaping adolescent attitude development.  First, I explore the relationship between an adolescent and their friends' attitudes and whether this influence is heterogeneous.  Second, I ask whether parents can moderate the friend effect.  I find that adolescents with poor attitudes and whose friends have particularly poor attitudes are especially at risk of developing low educational attitudes and that working with parents can serve as a channel to decrease the risk.
Length: 50 pages
Creation-Date: 2019-01
Revision-Date: 
Publication-Status: Published
File-URL: https://www.strath.ac.uk/media/1newwebsite/departmentsubject/economics/research/researchdiscussionpapers/19-01.pdf.pagespeed.ce.98T1FBJVbO.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
Number: 1901
Classification-JEL: C31,I21, Z13
Keywords: Skill development, attitudes, peer effects, friendship networks
Handle: RePEc:str:wpaper:1901