TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Polipciuc, Maria
AU  - Cörvers, Frank
AU  - Montizaan, Raymond
        TI  - Peers' Race in Adolescence and Voting Behavior
        PY  - 2021/Feb/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 14140
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp14140
        AB  - 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 2.2 percent increase in the probability of being registered to vote seven years later and to a 2.6 percent higher probability of voting 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.

        KW  - school-cohort racial diversity
KW  - voting behavior
KW  - peers
        ER  -