
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.
d72 - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, I24, Elections, Peers, Education and Inequality, Economics of Minorities, School-cohort racial diversity, D72, Legislatures, i24 - Education and Inequality, Voting behavior, J15, and Voting Behavior, Political Processes: Rent-seeking, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination, ddc:330, voting behavior, Races, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination", j15 - "Economics of Minorities, school-cohort racial diversity, peers
d72 - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, I24, Elections, Peers, Education and Inequality, Economics of Minorities, School-cohort racial diversity, D72, Legislatures, i24 - Education and Inequality, Voting behavior, J15, and Voting Behavior, Political Processes: Rent-seeking, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination, ddc:330, voting behavior, Races, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination", j15 - "Economics of Minorities, school-cohort racial diversity, peers
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