The Girl Next Door: The Effect of Opposite Gender Friends on High School Achievement

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Hill, Andrew J.
• 署名单位: University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7782
• DOI: 10.1257/app.20140030
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 147-177
• 关键词: academic-achievement; social networks; Risky behavior; time use; performance; sex; identification; students; outcomes; segregation

摘要

This paper finds that a student's share of opposite gender school friends negatively affects high school GPA. It uses the gender composition of schoolmates in an individual's neighborhood as an instrument for the gender composition of an individual's self-reported friendship network. The effect occurs across all subjects for students older than 16, but only in mathematics and science for younger students. Additional results indicate effects may operate inside the classroom through difficulties getting along with the teacher and paying attention, and outside the classroom through romantic relationships.