Algan, Yann; Dalvit, Nicolò; Do, Quoc-Anh; Chapelain, … - 2023
We study how social interaction and friendship shape students' political opinions in a natural experiment at Sciences … groups before their scholar curriculum reduce political opinion gap, and increase friendship formation. Using the pairwise … indicator of same-group membership as instrumental variable for friendship, we find that friendship causes a reduction of …