Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Pudney, Stephen
Author-Name: Conti, Gabriella
Author-Name: Galeotti, Andrea
Author-Name: Mueller, Gerrit
Title: Popularity
Abstract: What makes you popular among your high-school peers? And what are the labor market returns to popularity? We investigate these questions using an objective measure of popularity derived from sociometric theory: the number of friendship nom- inations received from schoolmates. We provide novel evidence that early family en- vironment, school composition and school size play a signicant role in determining popularity. We show that the estimated wage return to one additional nomination is about 2 percent the popularity premium. This amounts to roughly 40 percent of the return to one more year of education.
A revised version of this paper is published in the Fall 2013 issue of the Journal of Human Resources.

Creation-Date: 20090205
Number: 2009-03
Publication-Status: published
File-URL: https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/files/working-papers/iser/2009-03.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
Handle: RePEc:ese:iserwp:2009-03