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More than Just Friends? School Peers and Adult Interracial Relationships

This paper investigates the impact of individuals' school peers on their adult romantic relationships. In particular, we consider the effect of quasi-random variation in the share of black students within an individual's cohort on the percentage of adults' cohabiting partners that are black. We find that more black peers leads to more relationships with blacks later in life. The results are similar whether relationships begun near or far from school, suggesting that the racial mix of schools has an important and persistent impact on racial attitudes.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 10319

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Thema
assortative matching
romantic relationships
race

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Merlino, Luca Paolo
Steinhardt, Max F.
Wren-Lewis, Liam
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2016

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Merlino, Luca Paolo
  • Steinhardt, Max F.
  • Wren-Lewis, Liam
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2016

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