Friendship Networks and Socioeconomic Outcomes

友谊网络和社会经济成果

• 批准号: 2049207
• 负责人: Michael Macy
• 金额: $ 24万
• 依托单位: Cornell University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-06-01 至 2024-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2049207&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Friendship; Networks; Socioeconomic; Outcomes

Children who grow up in disadvantaged environments face substantial barriers to educational and economic success later in life. However, research has long shown that disadvantaged youth are influenced by their peers and benefit from interacting with children who come from different social and economic backgrounds. This project will study the conditions that promote friendships that cross socioeconomic boundaries among school children, and the implications of friendship patterns for longer-term educational achievement and economic success. The study will consider: Do the attributes that help children overcome disadvantaged backgrounds also promote friendships across socio-economic boundaries, and do these friendships in turn have a lasting impact on life trajectories? Findings from the study will help decision-makers to identify pathways that help youth from disadvantaged backgrounds to find greater economic success as adults.This study will investigate the friendship networks of disadvantaged youth and their effects using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), a nationally representative longitudinal study of over 20,000 adolescents. The study will use a combination of simulation analysis and network analysis to study how friendships that cross-socioeconomic boundaries shape longer-term educational, income, and occupational outcomes. One key contribution of the study will be a better understanding of why and how student and peer outcomes are related. The study aims to disentangle three kinds of influence: direct effects of students’ friendships, indirect or “ripple effects” on other students, and contextual effects of neighborhood and school composition. The study will contribute to sociological theories of stratification, social network analysis, and statistical research on endogeneity.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

在处境不利的环境中长大的儿童面临着以后生活中教育和经济成功的实质性障碍。但是，研究长期以来一直表明，处境不利的年轻人受到同龄人的影响，并与来自不同社会和经济背景的孩子互动而受益。该项目将研究促进小学生社会经济界限的朋友的条件，以及友谊模式对长期教育成就和经济成功的影响。该研究将考虑：帮助儿童克服灾难背景的属性是否也促进了社会经济界限的朋友，这些朋友反过来又对生活轨迹产生了持久的影响？这项研究的结果将帮助决策者确定途径，这些途径可以帮助来自弱势背景的年轻人找到更大的经济成功。这项研究将通过对青少年对成人健康的全国纵向研究（Add Add Health（Add Add Health）的全国性纵向研究（一项全国性代表性的漫长研究），对弱势青年及其影响的友谊网络进行了研究。该研究将使用模拟分析和网络分析的组合来研究跨社会经济边界的朋友职业如何塑造长期的教育，收入和职业成果。该研究的一个关键贡献将更好地理解为什么学生和同伴成果如何相关。该研究旨在消除三种影响：学生朋友的直接影响，间接或“连锁反应”对其他学生的影响，以及邻里和学校组成的上下文影响。该研究将有助于分层，社会网络分析和内生性的统计研究的社会学理论。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准，被认为值得通过评估。

项目成果

Causal Network Analysis

因果网络分析

• DOI: 10.1146/annurev-soc-030320-102100
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Annual Review of Sociology
• 影响因子: 10.5
• 作者: An, Weihua;Beauvile, Roberson;Rosche, Benjamin
• 通讯作者: Rosche, Benjamin