Racial Preferences In Dating Summary
"Racial Preferences in Dating," an article by Raymond Fisman, Sheena Iyengar, Emir Kamenia, and Itamar Simonson, was published in the Review of Economic Studies in 2008. The article was written to examine racial preference in dating by using a speed dating experiment that was designed to observe the decisions of the study participants. The thing about this article which most immediately stood out was that women, older people, and more attractive people displayed weaker preferences about the race of a potential partner.
As the authors note in their introduction, interracial marriage is very rare in the United States. When one considers that nearly half of all marriages would be interracial if partners were selected at random, but less than
As the authors note in their introduction, interracial marriage is very rare in the United States. When one considers that nearly half of all marriages would be interracial if partners were selected at random, but less than