Peers’ race in adolescence and voting behavior

Maria Polipciuc, Frank Cörvers and Raymond Montizaan

Economics of Education Review, 2023, vol. 97, issue C

Abstract: Using a representative longitudinal survey of U.S. teenagers, we investigate how peer racial composition in high school affects individual turnout of young adults. We exploit across-cohort, within-school differences in peer racial composition. One within-school standard deviation increase in the racial diversity index leads to a 2.3 percent increase in the probability to be registered to vote seven years later and to a 2.6 percent higher probability to vote six years later. These effects are likely due to positive interracial contact when socialization has long-lasting effects: higher racial diversity in school is linked to more interracial friendships in school and later on.

Keywords: Voting behavior; School-cohort racial diversity; Peers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D72 I24 J15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2023.102486

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