ERIC Number: EJ1415351
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 20
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ISSN: ISSN-0964-5292
EISSN: EISSN-1469-5782
Friends Don't Let Friends Drop Out
John M. Krieg; Darius D. Martin; Adam C. Wright
Education Economics, v32 n2 p121-140 2024
We combine administrative data from a regional public university with a novel revealed-preference indicator of student friendships to show that socially connected first-year university students are more likely to be retained into their second year. The impact of friends on retention is statistically and economically significant: each friend raises the probability of retention by about 0.6 percentage points, an effect size roughly equivalent to 66 SAT points. This effect occurs in the presence of a robust set of explanatory variables, including unique indicators of a student's prior commitment to the university, and applies to wide variety of student subgroups.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Washington
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