Love Thy (Elected) Neighbor? Residential Segregation, Political Representation and Local Public Goods

Don't love thy nearest neighbor

Love Thy Neighbor? Ethnoracial Diversity and Trust Reexamined.

According to recent research, ethnoracial diversity negatively affects trust and social capital. This article challenges the current conception and measurement of "diversity" and invites scholars to rethink "so-cial capital" in complex societies. It reproduces the analysis of Putnam and shows that the association between diversity and self-reported trust is a compositional artifact attributable...

Love Thy Neighbor: Sharing and Cooperativity in the Gut Microbiota.

To persist in the competitive gastrointestinal ecosystem, microbes often enforce selfish strategies that limit resource loss to neighboring bacteria. In contrast, a recent study in Nature by Rakoff-Nahoum et al. (2016) reveals that one commensal bacterium releases nutrients to benefit another species, which reciprocally provides growth-promoting factors to the producer.

Love Thy Neighbor: Income Distribution and Housing Preferences

Do homeowners prefer living in an area with a more equal distribution of income? We answer this question by estimating a nonparametric hedonic pricing model for about 90,000 housing units transacted in Hong Kong between 2005 and 2006. We first identify a hedonic price function by locally regressing the rental price of the housing unit on its intrinsic and neighborhood characteristics, one of wh...

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