{"id":172,"date":"2024-10-23T13:04:48","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T13:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mortenhjortskov.dk\/?p=172"},"modified":"2026-01-05T15:23:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T15:23:27","slug":"educational-choice-paper-in-weekendavisen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortenhjortskov.dk\/?p=172","title":{"rendered":"Educational Choice Paper in Weekendavisen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Simon Calmar Andersen and my paper &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/behavioural-public-policy\/article\/unnoticed-influence-of-peers-on-educational-preferences\/8DF7DFAB8B8920495F0B581B590DFD5C\">The unnoticed influence of peers on educational preferences<\/a>&#8221; is featured in an article in the Danish newspaper Weekendavisen. The title is &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.weekendavisen.dk\/2024-42\/ideer\/i-klikens-fodspor\">I klikens fodspor<\/a>&#8221; by Anders Boas and it is about the influence that friends of young people about to make an educational choice have on their opinions about different educations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"662\" src=\"https:\/\/mortenhjortskov.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-1-1024x662.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-174\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortenhjortskov.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-1-1024x662.png 1024w, https:\/\/mortenhjortskov.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-1-300x194.png 300w, https:\/\/mortenhjortskov.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-1-768x497.png 768w, https:\/\/mortenhjortskov.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-1-850x550.png 850w, https:\/\/mortenhjortskov.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-1.png 1294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Our paper shows that peers are at the bottom at the list when young people are asked, what influences their educational choice:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"316\" src=\"https:\/\/mortenhjortskov.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-2-1024x316.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortenhjortskov.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-2-1024x316.png 1024w, https:\/\/mortenhjortskov.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-2-300x92.png 300w, https:\/\/mortenhjortskov.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-2-768x237.png 768w, https:\/\/mortenhjortskov.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-2-850x262.png 850w, https:\/\/mortenhjortskov.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-2.png 1324w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We also show this in a conjoint experiment and a list experiment. However, when we randomly assign some of them to be reminded about their peers&#8217; attitudes towards certain educations, these young people are pulled in their peers&#8217; direction &#8211; an indication of an influence after all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/mortenhjortskov.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-1024x750.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortenhjortskov.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-1024x750.png 1024w, https:\/\/mortenhjortskov.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-300x220.png 300w, https:\/\/mortenhjortskov.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-768x562.png 768w, https:\/\/mortenhjortskov.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-850x622.png 850w, https:\/\/mortenhjortskov.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image.png 1049w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Calmar Andersen and my paper &#8220;The unnoticed influence of peers on educational preferences&#8221; is featured in an article in the Danish newspaper Weekendavisen. The title is &#8220;I klikens fodspor&#8221; by Anders Boas and it is about the influence that friends of young people about to make an educational choice&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mortenhjortskov.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mortenhjortskov.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mortenhjortskov.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mortenhjortskov.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mortenhjortskov.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mortenhjortskov.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176,"href":"https:\/\/mortenhjortskov.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mortenhjortskov.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mortenhjortskov.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mortenhjortskov.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}