This paper uses a unique data set to measure peer effects among college roommates. Freshman year roommates and dormmates are randomly assigned at Dartmouth College. I find that peers have an impact on grade point average and on decisions to join social groups such as fraternities. Residential peer

A study investigated the influence of interpersonal variables, such as communicative competence, loneliness, and roommate rapport, upon persistence in college. The study includes self-reports as well as reports of roommates behaviors. Subjects were 200 freshman students (out of a total of 350) who

Abstract. One of the oldest but least understood matching problems is Gale and Shapley’s (1962) “roommates problem”: is there a stable way to assign 2N students into N roommate pairs? Unlike the classic marriage problem or college admissions problem, there need not exist a stable solution

This paper estimates the effect of students ’ background characteristics on the academic outcomes of their college roommates. It uses data from four classes of students at Wellesley College, where roommate assignment is credibly random, conditional on student responses to a housing preference form

The authors report two longitudinal studies of new college roommates (Ns = 69 and 95 pairs). In both studies, targets ' initial self-views predicted changes in perceivers ' appraisals of them, and per-ceivers ' initial appraisals predicted changes in targets ' self

ABSTRACT-This study investigated how automatically activated racial attitudes are affected by relatively longterm interracial relationships. A natural field experiment was conducted in a college dormitory system. Participants were White freshmen who had been randomly assigned to either a White

This paper examines a natural experiment in which students at a large state university are randomly assigned roommates through a lottery system. We find that on average, males assigned to roommates who reported drinking in the year prior to entering college had one quarter-point lower GPA than

ABSTRACT—This study investigated how automatically activated racial attitudes are affected by relatively long-term interracial relationships. A natural field experiment was conducted in a college dormitory system. Participants were White freshmen who had been randomly assigned to either a

examined how college roommates ’ dieting predicted disordered eating levels in women (n � 566) and men (n � 233) at 10-year follow-up. For women, college roommates ’ dieting significantly predicted Eating Disorder Inventory Drive for Thinness and Bulimia scores and purging at 10-year follow-up. Findings

and assess emotional response, the authors found that dating partners (Study 1) and college roommates (Studies 2 and 3) became more similar in their emotional responses over the course of a year. Further, relationship partners with less power made more of the change necessary for convergence to occur