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More than Just Friends? School Peers and Adult Interracial Relationships
Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (Institute for the Study of Labor)
Bonn, Germany
Discussion Paper No. 10319 (October 2016)
40 pages
Luca Paolo Merlino, Associate Professor
Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne
Max F. Steinhardt, Research Fellow
Helmut Schmidt University, IZA, LdA and CELSI
Liam Wren-Lewis, Associate Member
Paris School of Economics and INRA
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.
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Tags: Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit, Institute for the Study of Labor, IZA, Liam Wren-Lewis, Luca Merlino, Luca P. Merlino, Luca Paolo Merlino, Max F. Steinhardt, Max Friedrich Steinhardt, Max Steinhardt