Tag: Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit

  • Mixing kids in school leads to more mixed-race adult relationships IZA Newsroom Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (Institute for the Study of Labor) Bonn, Germany 2016-11-24 Does the racial mix of students’ classmates affect their behavior later on in life? A new IZA Discussion Paper by Luca Paolo Merlino, Max Friedrich Steinhardt and Liam Wren-Lewis compares…

  • 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…