Party On: The Labor Market Returns to Social Networks in Adolescence

We are grateful to seminar and conference participants at Northwestern University, Santa Barbara University, USC, Peking University, SOCCAM, the All-California Labor Economics conference, the North American Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society, the Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society in China, and the China Labor Economist Conference. We are particularly grateful to Larry Katz for his very insightful suggestions. This project was supported by the California Center for Population Research at UCLA (CCPR), which receives core support (P2C- HD041022) from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). Research done prior to joining Audible. Audible is a subsidiary of Amazon. All views contained in this research are the author’s own and do not represent the views of Amazon or its affiliates. All errors are our own. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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• June 3, 2020