ethnic diversity and its impact on community social cohesion and neighborly exchange rebecca wickes, renee zahnow, gentry white, lorraine mazerolle (2013) 1   /abs/10.1111/juaf.12015 2   > putnams hunker down theory is replicated in australia, though findings show that immigrant populations are less effected than white australians. > our findings indicate that social cohesion and neighborly exchange are attenuated in ethnically diverse suburbs. however, diversity is less consequential for neighborly exchange among immigrants when compared to the general population. our results provide at least partial support for putnams thesis. ------------- measuring trust  edward l. glaeser david i. laibson jos a. scheinkman christine l. soutter (2000) 1   econ264/papers/glaeser%20et%20al%20 qje%202000.pdf 2   0133248/  andreon/econ264/papers/glaeser%20e t%20al%20qje%202000.pdf > in an economic game, 92% of the cases in which money was stolen was between racially diverse (heterogeneous) pairs of participants. > most strikingly, 92 percent of the cases where the recipient sent back nothing occurred when the individuals were of different races, while only 59 percent of the pairings were racially diverse
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