This project team will test whether it is possible to create a scalable measure of youth social capital using educational administrative data. The researchers will field student-level surveys focusing on cross-class and cross-race ties in four diverse high schools in metropolitan Detroit. They will then compare these results with administrative records on course enrollments and demographic characteristics.

Data Sources 

• Data: Administrative and social network survey data from 11th grade students in five socioeconomically diverse schools in the Detroit area, and data from semi-structured interviews with 6-8 students in four of these schools
• Mobility Outcomes: Social capital (as characterized by network density, reciprocity, homophily, strong ties/weak ties, and cross-socioeconomic ties such as shared years in the same high school(s), number of shared core, elective, and honors classes, distance between students’ homes, extracurricular activities, and student demographics)