%0 Report
        %A Polipciuc, Maria
%A Cörvers, Frank
%A Montizaan, Raymond
        %T Peers' Race in Adolescence and Voting Behavior
        %D 2021
        %8 2021 Feb
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 14140
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp14140
        %X 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.

        %K school-cohort racial diversity
%K voting behavior
%K peers