Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/260116 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2014:19
Publisher: 
Lund University, School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics, Lund
Abstract: 
We interview both parents and their children enrolled in six primary schools in the district of Treviso (Italy). We study the structural differences between the children network of friends reported by children and the one elicited asking their parents. We find that the parents' network has a bias: parents expect peer effects on school achievement to be stronger than what they really are. Thus, parents of low-performing students report their children to be friends of high-performing students. Our numerical simulations indicate that when this bias is combined with a bias on how some children target friends, then there is a multiplier effect on the expected school achievement.
Subjects: 
social networks
primary school
friendships
parents' bias
homophily
peer effects
Bonacich centrality
JEL: 
D85
I21
Z13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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