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Perspectives on Politics (2003), 1 : 103-111 Cambridge University Press
Copyright © 2003 by the American Political Science Association
doi:10.1017.S1537592703000082
Published online by Cambridge University Press 09 Jan 2004
 
Perspective on Politics (2003), 1:1:103-111 American Political Science Association
Copyright © 2003 by the American Political Science Association
doi:10.1017/S1537592703000082

SYMPOSIUM

Civic Engagement and Community Heterogeneity: An Economist's Perspective

Dora L. Costa a1 and Matthew E. Kahn a2
a1 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
a2 Associate professor of international economics at the Fletcher School, Tufts University (matt.kahn@tufts.edu).

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?”


Footnotes

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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