Beyond the “Old Boys’ Network”
研究了社区大学同学网络如何影响求职，发现学生更可能在同班同学所在的公司找到工作，而非同课程不同班的同学所在公司。
<h3>Abstract</h3> Research and popular discourse on social networks in higher education have focused on elite universities, even though most students do not attend such institutions. This paper sheds novel light on how classmate networks at community colleges influence job finding. Using data from a state community college system linked to matched employer-employee records, I exploit quasi-random variation in class section enrollment within courses to detect network effects. I find students are significantly more likely to get a job at a classmate’s firm later than at the firm of a peer enrolled in a different section of the same course.