White Men are Likely to Move Twice as Fast When With a Minority Girlfriend

From The Cornell Chronicle: “Among young American adults, relationships between white men and minority women move into sexual intimacy and from sex to cohabitation significantly faster than white-white couples or minority-minority pairings, reports a new study by a Cornell demographer. […] Controlling for such factors as religion and family background, the researchers found that, on average, white male-minority female couples advanced to sex within one month of dating — nearly twice as fast as white-white couples. Such couples also moved in together more quickly than with same-race partners. The pace of cohabitation for white women, on the other hand, does not differ significantly by the race of their partner.”