Contact and group structure: A natural experiment of interracial college roommate groups

Organization Science

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1216-1233

  Chakravarti, Arjun ^a   Menon, Tanya ^b   Winship, Christopher ^c  

^a ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversity; Field experiments; Group structure; Networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904890373     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.2014.0905     Document Type: Article

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