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JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
Volume 28, Issue 4, Pages 861-892Publisher
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/653831
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We use unique longitudinal data to provide direct evidence about interracial friendships at different stages of college and to provide new evidence about some of the reasons for the observed patterns of interaction. We find that, while much sorting exists at all stages of college, black and white students are, in reality, very compatible as friends; randomly assigned roommates of different races are as likely to become friends as randomly assigned roommates of the same race. Further, we find that, in the long run, being (randomly) assigned a black roommate significantly increases the number of other black friends a white student has.
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