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.

在不利环境中长大的儿童在以后的生活中面临着教育和经济成功的巨大障碍。然而，长期以来的研究表明，弱势青年受到同龄人的影响，并从与来自不同社会和经济背景的儿童的互动中受益。该项目将研究促进学校儿童之间跨越社会经济界限的友谊的条件，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：帮助儿童克服弱势背景的属性是否也促进了跨越社会经济界限的友谊，这些友谊是否反过来对生活轨迹产生了持久的影响？研究结果将有助于决策者确定帮助来自弱势背景的青年在成年后获得更大经济成功的途径。本研究将利用全国青少年到成人健康纵向研究（Add Health）调查弱势青年的友谊网络及其影响，该研究是一项具有全国代表性的针对2万多名青少年的纵向研究。该研究将使用模拟分析和网络分析相结合的方法来研究跨越社会经济界限的友谊如何塑造长期的教育，收入和职业成果。这项研究的一个关键贡献将是更好地理解为什么以及如何学生和同龄人的结果是相关的。本研究旨在厘清三种影响：学生友谊的直接影响，对其他学生的间接或“涟漪效应”，以及邻里和学校成分的背景效应。该研究将有助于社会学理论的分层，社会网络分析，和统计研究的endoadministration.This奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得的支持，通过评估使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。

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