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Title: Love Thy Neighbor? - Carpooling, Relational Costs, and the Production of Social Capital

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Publication Year: 2001

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Abstract: This paper argues that individuals are more likely to have social capital the greater the incidence of people in their neighborhood who share certain traits which affect the ease and nature of social interaction. We argue that race and language are examples of such relational traits. The paper tests this prediction using an indicator of social capital never previously studied: whether someone uses a carpool to get to work. This measure retains nearly all of the strengths of previously used measures, and is free of most of their weaknesses. Analysis is conducted on a merged data set, with individual level data drawn from the 1990 IPUMS Census extract, and information on neighborhoods (PUMAs) derived from the 1990 Census STF3 tables. The models predictions are confirmed for both race and language.

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Authors: Kline, Patrick; Charles, Kerwin Kofi

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Publication Number: 2001-010

Institution: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan

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Data Collections: IPUMS International

Topics: Housing and Segregation, Other

Countries: United States