More than Just Friends? School Peers and Adult Interracial Relationships

Luca Merlino, Max Steinhardt () and Liam Wren-Lewis

No 10319, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: assortative matching; romantic relationships; race (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J12 J15 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 41 pages
Date: 2016-10
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Published - published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 37(3), 663-713

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