Empathy or antipathy? The impact of diversity

By J. Boisjoly, G. Duncan, Michael Kremer, Dan M. Levy, Jacquelynne S. Eccles. 2006

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Subfields: Demography, Education, Safety Research

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Interracial Friendships in the Transition to College: Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together Once They Leave the Nest? (2009, background): “Boisjoly et al. (2006) found that white students who had black roommates during their first year of college were more likely to report being comfortable interacting with members of other racial groups later in college.”
The Medium-Term Impacts of High-Achieving Charter Schools (2015, neutral): “A large literature suggests that outcomes are heavily influenced by one’s peers ðSacerdote 2001; Fergusson, Swain-Campbell, and Horwood 2002; Boisjoly et al. 2006; Carrell, Fullerton, and West 2009; Deming 2011Þ.”
The Impact of College Diversity on Behavior toward Minorities (2019, background): “Most of these randomized studies have focused on settings such as college dormitory and roommate assignments, where increased proximity has been shown to increase frequency of inter-race contact via email (Marmaros and Sacerdote, 2006) and Facebook (Baker, Mayer and Puller, 2011) and friendships (Bu”
Types of Contact: A Field Experiment on Collaborative and Adversarial Caste Integration (2021, background): “Existing empirical tests study one type of contact in isolation ( Boisjoly et al. 2006; Enos 2014; Dahl, Kotsadam, and Rooth 2021; Scacco and Warren 2018; Corno, La Ferrara, and Burns 2019; Schindler and Westcott 2021 , or use nonrandomized variation in the type of contact ( Pettigrew and Tropp…”
Does Integration Change Gender Attitudes? The Effect of Randomly Assigning Women to Traditionally Male Teams* (2018, positive): “5 Field experiments which randomly assign a college roommate of another race or ethnicity find a reduction in prejudice (Boisjoly et al., 2006; Burns et al., 2016; Van Laar et al., 2005), and exposure to black students within a military setting results in less racial bias and a higher likelihood of ”
Letting Down the Team? Social Effects of Team Incentives (2012, neutral): “…interactions or social pressure (Sacerdote, 2001, Zimmerman 2003, Bandiera, Barankay, and Rasul, 2005, 2010, forthcoming, Falk and Ichino 2005, Boisjoly et al, 2006, Foster 2006, Lyle, 2007, Kremer and Levy, 2008, Carrell, Fullerton, and West, 2009, Mas and Moretti, 2009, Carrell, Hoekstra,…”
Racial Bias in Bail Decisions ⇤ (2018, positive): “For example, Van Laar et al. (2005) and Boisjoly et al. (2006) show that living with a minority group increases tolerance among white college students, Dobbie and Fryer (2013) show that teaching in a school with mostly minority children increases racial tolerance, and Clingingsmith et al. (2009)…”
Unity in Diversity? How Intergroup Contact Can Foster Nation Building (2019, positive): “A few studies use (quasi-)experimental variation in diversity within college dormitories (Boisjoly et al., 2006), primary schools (Rao, 2018) or sports teams (Lowe, 2018) to show that intergroup contact fosters short-run increases in tolerance and out-group friendships.”
Effects of School Quality on Student Achievement: Discontinuity Evidence from Kenya (2014, background): “verse schools can promote better inter-ethnic or inter-racial relations (Boisjoly et al. 2006), however the effect of increased ethnic diversity on achievement is unknown.”
The Old Boy (and Girl) Network: Social Network Formation on University Campuses (2008, background): “For example, see Sacerdote (2001), Zimmerman (2003), Kremer and Levy (2003), Winston and Zimmerman (2003), Boisjoly et al. (2004, 2004), Foster (2006), Stinebrickner and Stinebrickner (2006), Sacerdote and Marmaros (2006), Lyle (2007) and Carrell, West and Malmstron (forthcoming). Results have been ”