What's wrong with a little neighborly love?
What's wrong with a little neighborly love?
- August 10, 2013
- Jan Brueckner, economics professor, is quoted in UT San Diego August 10, 2013
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From UT San Diego:
In a recent piece about how the core cities are becoming “childless” – home to the
hip and single or couples without kids, Kotkin refers to a 2006 study that seems to
cut the other way regarding the isolation of the suburbs. In that study, University
of California, Irvine economist Jan Brueckner and University of Dublin professor Arin
Largey used data on 14,827 individuals interviewed for a Social Capital Benchmark
Survey. The researchers were attempting to see if a correlation existed between population
density and the loss of community connection. … Brueckner and Largey “found that for
every 10 percent drop in population density, the likelihood of someone’s talking to
his neighbor once a week went up 10 percent, regardless of race, income, education,
marital status, or age.” That translates to out in the ’burbs, we talk to each other.
For the full story, please visit http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/aug/10/who-said-theres-anything-wron....
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