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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Racial Preferences in Dating
Contributor:
Fisman, Raymond;
Simonson, Itamar
Published:
Review of Economic Studies Ltd., 2008
Published in:
The Review of Economic Studies, 75 (2008) 1, Seite 117-132
Language:
English
ISSN:
0034-6527;
1467-937X
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<p>We examine racial preferences in dating. We employ a Speed Dating experiment that allows us to directly observe individual decisions and thus infer whose preferences lead to racial segregation in romantic relationships. Females exhibit stronger racial preferences than males. The richness of our data further allows us to identify many determinants of same-race preferences. Subjects' backgrounds, including the racial composition of the ZIP code where a subject grew up and the prevailing racial attitudes in a subject's state or country of origin, strongly influence same-race preferences. Older subjects and more physically attractive subjects exhibit weaker same-race preferences.</p>