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Title: The Racial Gap in Friendships among High-Achieving Students. EdWorkingPaper No. 24-1025
Language: English
Authors: Weonhyeok Chung, Jeonghyeok Kim, Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University
Source: Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University. 2024.
Availability: 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: AISR_Info@brown.edu; Web site: http://www.annenberginstitute.org
Peer Reviewed: N
Page Count: 71
Publication Date: 2024
Document Type: Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
Grade 7
Junior High Schools
Middle Schools
Secondary Education
Grade 8
Grade 9
High Schools
Grade 10
Grade 11
Grade 12
Descriptors: Friendship, Racial Factors, High Achievement, Minority Group Students, African American Students, White Students, Comparative Analysis, Homogeneous Grouping, Adolescents, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Individual Characteristics
Abstract: High-achieving minority students have fewer friends than their majority counterparts. Exploring patterns of friendship formation in the Add Health data, we find strong racial homophily in friendship formations as well as strong achievement homophily within race. However, we find that achievement matters less in cross-racial friendships. As a result, high-achieving Black students lose Black friends as they move away from the mean achievement of their group, but do not gain high-achieving White friends in offsetting fashion. We find that high-achieving Black students have 0.9 fewer friends, mainly attributable to the fact that they are exposed to fewer high-achieving peers within their own race. We find that this could account for as much as 5 to 9 percent of the racial wage gap observed among high achievers.
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