Racial Preferences in Dating
通过速配实验直接观察个体决策，发现女性比男性有更强的种族偏好，且成长环境、种族态度、年龄和外表吸引力等因素影响同种族偏好。
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. Copyright 2008, Wiley-Blackwell.