@article{bd0a854e0773424ea2340df2ffe33556,
title = "Peers{\textquoteright} race in adolescence and voting behavior",
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 = "Peers, School-cohort racial diversity, Voting behavior",
author = "Maria Polipciuc and Frank C{\"o}rvers and Raymond Montizaan",
note = "Funding Information: We thank seminar audiences at Maastricht University and the Norwegian School of Economics, and participants at the Joint Ph.D. Workshop in Economics (University of Bergen, Norwegian School of Economics) in October 2018, at the 2019 ERMAS conference at Babes-Bolyai University and at the 2020 EALE conference. This article benefited from helpful comments from and discussions with Joshua Angrist, Patrick Dylan Bennett, Bet Caeyers, Marion Collewet, Rita Ginja, Fanny Landaud, Linda {\O}stergren and Veronica Petrencu. This research uses data from Add Health, funded by grant P01 HD31921 (Harris) from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), with cooperative funding from 23 other federal agencies and foundations. Add Health is currently directed by Robert A. Hummer and funded by the National Institute on Aging cooperative agreements U01 AG071448 (Hummer) and U01AG071450 (Aiello and Hummer) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Add Health was designed by J. Richard Udry, Peter S. Bearman, and Kathleen Mullan Harris at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Funding Information: We thank seminar audiences at Maastricht University and the Norwegian School of Economics, and participants at the Joint Ph.D. Workshop in Economics (University of Bergen, Norwegian School of Economics) in October 2018, at the 2019 ERMAS conference at Babes-Bolyai University and at the 2020 EALE conference. This article benefited from helpful comments from and discussions with Joshua Angrist, Patrick Dylan Bennett, Bet Caeyers, Marion Collewet, Rita Ginja, Fanny Landaud, Linda {\O}stergren and Veronica Petrencu. This research uses data from Add Health, funded by grant P01 HD31921 (Harris) from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), with cooperative funding from 23 other federal agencies and foundations. Add Health is currently directed by Robert A. Hummer and funded by the National Institute on Aging cooperative agreements U01 AG071448 (Hummer) and U01AG071450 (Aiello and Hummer) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Add Health was designed by J. Richard Udry, Peter S. Bearman, and Kathleen Mullan Harris at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023 The Author(s)",
year = "2023",
month = dec,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1016/j.econedurev.2023.102486",
language = "English",
volume = "97",
journal = "Economics of Education Review",
issn = "0272-7757",
publisher = "Elsevier Limited",
}