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6. Religion and Segregation

Author : Ronny Razin

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Abstract

In recent years economists have started taking an interest in the increasing levels of segregation of Western societies. For example, in the US, since 1970 residential segregation has been on the rise.

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Footnotes
2
See Arnon (1992) for the history of residential segregation in Jerusalem during the Ottoman Empire.
 
3
An insightful recent New Yorker article, “Where the Small-Town American Dream Lives On”, tells the story of a small town, Orange City, Iowa, that has a strong sense of community which it owes to its heritage of a group of Dutch protestant immigrants who settled there in the end of the nineteenth century. See https://​www.​newyorker.​com/​magazine/​2017/​11/​13/​where-the-small-town-american-dream-lives-on.
 
4
This is true for both theoretical and empirical work.
 
5
“For all man are not created in equal condition rather eternal life is foreordained for some, eternal damnation for others” (Calvin, Institutes, III. xxi 5).
 
6
See Gilbert (1998).
 
7
McCleary (2007) also shows that Protestants tend to trust or place obligations on others as they do with family members.
 
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Metadata
Title
Religion and Segregation
Author
Ronny Razin
Copyright Year
2019
Book
Advances in the Economics of Religion

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-98847-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-98848-1

Copyright Year: 2019

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98848-1_6