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

Economics Letters

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 110-112

  Baker, Sara ^a   Mayer, Adalbert ^b   Puller, Steven L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversity; Education policy; Facebook; Random assignment; Social networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649766540     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2010.09.010     Document Type: Article

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