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Civic Engagement and Community Heterogeneity: An Economist's Perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2004

Dora L. Costa  and
Matthew E. Kahn
Dora L. Costa
Affiliation:
Ford Career Development Associate Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (costa@mit.edu); she is also a research associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research
Matthew E. Kahn
Affiliation:
Associate professor of international economics at the Fletcher School, Tufts University (matt.kahn@tufts.edu).
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Abstract

Now many of them [economists] are writing about neighborhood get-togethers, PTAs, Bible study classes, and the like …. This is not necessarily a good thing.—Claude S. Fischer, “Bowling Alone: What's the Score?”The authors thank the participants in the Conference on Social Connectedness and Public Activism (Harvard University), where an earlier version of this article was delivered in May 2002; Jennifer Hochschild; and four anonymous reviewers for comments. They also thank NIH grant R01 AG19637. Additionally, Dora Costa thanks NIH grants AG12658 and AG10120.

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Perspectives on Politics , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , March 2003 , pp. 103 - 111
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2003 by the American Political Science Association

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