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

abstract

• 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. 2010 Elsevier B.V.

authors

• Puller, Steven

published proceedings

• ECONOMICS LETTERS

altmetric score

• 3

author list (cited authors)

• Baker, S., Mayer, A., & Puller, S. L.

citation count

• 12

complete list of authors

• Baker, Sara||Mayer, Adalbert||Puller, Steven L

publication date

• January 2011

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• Economics Letters  Journal

keywords

• Diversity
• Education Policy
• Facebook
• Random Assignment
• Social Networks

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/j.econlet.2010.09.010

start page

• 110

end page

• 112

volume

• 110

issue

• 2

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2010.09.010