New Urbanism and Selection Bias in the Formation of Social Capital

Joseph F. Cabrera

Housing Policy Debate, 2013, vol. 23, issue 2, 376-394

Abstract: Over the past several decades, there has been a decline in social capital in American communities. New urbanism has been proposed as a tool to reverse some of this decline. This study seeks to understand the potential benefits of new urbanism in terms of social capital. Differences in social capital between a new urbanist subdivision (NUS) and a standard suburban subdivision (SSS) are compared. The findings of this study suggest that residents of NUSs have more social capital than residents of SSSs. However, many of the differences between the two communities disappeared when a social bias control was added to the model.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2013.766626

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