Racial Identity and Education
Author(s) / Creator(s)
Patacchini, Eleonora
Zenou, Yves
Abstract / Description
We investigate the sources of differences in school performance between students of different races by focusing on identity issues. We find that having a higher percentage of same-race friends has a positive effect of white teenagers' test score while having a negative effect on blacks' test scores. However, the higher the education level of a black teenager's parent, the lower this negative effect, while for whites, it is the reverse. It is thus the combination of the choice of friends (which is a measure of own identity) and the parent's education that are responsible for the difference in education attainment between students of different races but also between students of the same race. One interesting aspects of this paper is to provide a theoretical model that grounds the instrumental variable approach used in the empirical analysis to deal with endogeneity issues.
Keyword(s)
Minderheit Freund Schulerfolg Gruppeneffekt ethnic minorities peer effects education achievement endogeneity issuesPersistent Identifier
Date of first publication
2006
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Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit/ Institute for the Study of Labor: IZA Discussion Paper Series;2046
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Patacchini, Eleonora
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Zenou, Yves
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Made available on2022-11-17T11:02:54Z
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Date of first publication2006
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Abstract / DescriptionWe investigate the sources of differences in school performance between students of different races by focusing on identity issues. We find that having a higher percentage of same-race friends has a positive effect of white teenagers' test score while having a negative effect on blacks' test scores. However, the higher the education level of a black teenager's parent, the lower this negative effect, while for whites, it is the reverse. It is thus the combination of the choice of friends (which is a measure of own identity) and the parent's education that are responsible for the difference in education attainment between students of different races but also between students of the same race. One interesting aspects of this paper is to provide a theoretical model that grounds the instrumental variable approach used in the empirical analysis to deal with endogeneity issues.en
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Persistent Identifierhttps://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bsz:291-psydok-16566
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Persistent Identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11780/1117
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Persistent Identifierhttps://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.8967
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Language of contenteng
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Is part ofIZA Discussion Paper Series No. 2046
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Is part of seriesForschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit/ Institute for the Study of Labor: IZA Discussion Paper Series;2046
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Keyword(s)Minderheitde
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Keyword(s)Freundde
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Keyword(s)Schulerfolgde
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Keyword(s)Gruppeneffektde
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Keyword(s)ethnic minoritiesen
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Keyword(s)peer effectsen
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Keyword(s)education achievementen
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Keyword(s)endogeneity issuesen
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Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)150
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TitleRacial Identity and Educationen
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DRO typereport
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Visible tag(s)PsyDok