Arbeitspapier
What Matters for Choosing your Neighbors: Evidence from Canadian Metropolitan Areas
A corollary of the First Law of Geography and the Principle of Homophily is that "near things are more similar than distant things." We test that proposition using spatially fine-grained data on thousands of colocation patterns of ethnic groups in the six largest Canadian metropolitan areas. The geographic patterns reveal that groups that are more similar along various non-spatial dimensions- language, culture, religion, genetics, and historico-political relationships-colocate more. These results are robust to numerous controls and provide a quantitative glimpse of the 'deep roots' of homophily.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Document de travail ; No. 2019-03
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Wirtschaft
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Behrens, Kristian
Moussouni, Oualid
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Veröffentlichung
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Université du Québec à Montréal, École des sciences de la gestion (ESG UQAM), Département des sciences économiques
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Montréal
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2019
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10.03.2025, 11:47 AM CET
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- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Behrens, Kristian
- Moussouni, Oualid
- Université du Québec à Montréal, École des sciences de la gestion (ESG UQAM), Département des sciences économiques
Time of origin
- 2019
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