In-migration and Dilution of Community Social Capital

Julie Hotchkiss and Anil Rupasingha

Working Papers from U.S. Census Bureau, Center for Economic Studies

Abstract: Consistent with predictions from the literature, we find that higher levels of in-migration dilute multiple dimensions of a community's level of social capital. The analysis employs a 2SLS methodology to account for potential endogeneity of migration.

Keywords: social capital; migration; decennial census; social capital community benchmark survey; non-public data; simultaneous equations; endogeneity; factor analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C36 C38 D71 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38 pages
Date: 2018-06
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-mig, nep-soc and nep-ure
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Journal Article: In-migration and Dilution of Community Social Capital (2022)
Working Paper: In-migration and Dilution of Community Social Capital (2018)
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