Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/232892 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 14140
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
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 2.2 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.
Subjects: 
voting behavior
school-cohort racial diversity
peers
JEL: 
D72
I24
J15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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