Do more diverse environments increase the diversity of subsequent interaction? Evidence from random dorm assignment

Exposing university students to members of a different race via random dorm assignment increases the number of different race friends in the dorm, but does not increase the diversity of social networks outside that environment, based upon data from Facebook.

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Year of publication:	2011
Authors:	Baker, Sara ; Mayer, Adalbert ; Puller, Steven L.
Published in:	Economics Letters. - Elsevier, ISSN 0165-1765. - Vol. 110.2011, 2, p. 110-112
Publisher:	Elsevier
Keywords:	Social networks Education policy Facebook Diversity Random assignment

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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