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ERIC Number: ED672131
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2022-Sep
Pages: 57
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
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Available Date: 0000-00-00
You Are Who You Eat With: Academic Peer Effects from School Lunch Lines. EdWorkingPaper No. 22-637
Jonathan L. Presler
Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University
Using daily lunch transaction data from NYC public schools, I determine which students frequently stand next to one another in the lunch line. I use this 'revealed' friendship network to estimate academic peer effects in elementary school classrooms, improving on previous work by defining not only where social connections exist, but the relative strength of these connections. Equally weighting all peers in a reference group assumes that all peers are equally important and may bias estimates by underweighting important peers and overweighting unimportant peers. I find that students who eat together are important influencers of one another's academic performance, with stronger effects in math than in reading. Further exploration of the mechanisms supports my claim that these are friendship networks. I also compare the influence of friends from different periods in the school year and find that connections occurring around standardized testing dates are most influential on test scores.
Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University. Brown University Box 1985, Providence, RI 02912. Tel: 401-863-7990; Fax: 401-863-1290; e-mail: annenberg@brown.edu; Web site: https://annenberg.brown.edu/
Publication Type: Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
Authoring Institution: Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University
Identifiers - Location: New York (New York)
Grant or Contract Numbers: 5R01DK09734702
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