Immigrant peers in the class: Effects on natives’ long-run revealed preferences

Helena Holmlund, Erica Lindahl and Sara Roman

Labour Economics, 2023, vol. 82, issue C

Abstract: Previous research from the U.S. has suggested that black-white interaction in school can reduce prejudice and increase the prevalence of interracial relationships. We test whether this result holds also for natives and immigrants in Europe – groups whose interaction is plausibly more constrained by religious and cultural differences. Specifically, we study whether exposure to immigrant origin peers in school affects natives’ probability to have a child with a partner with non-Western background. Identification is based on variation in immigrant exposure across cohorts within schools in Sweden. We find that natives are affected by exposure to opposite-sex peers: native girls (boys) are more likely to have a child with a partner with non-Western background when exposed to immigrant origin boys (girls). In contrast to previous studies, we find no effects from same-sex peer exposure.

Keywords: Contact hypothesis; Peer effects; Intermarriage (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I2 J12 J15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2023.102360

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