The diversity we breath: Community diversity and gas leak management
| dc.contributor.author | Jordan, Felipe | |
| dc.contributor.author | Di Gregorio, Enrico | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-01-20T16:13:19Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-01-20T16:13:19Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Diversity might reduce the ability of small-scale communities to protect local resources through its adverse impact on collective action and individual attachment. Using geocoded data on more than 1500 Grade-3 gas leaks in 2016 across Boston and Cambridge, MA, we show that when a leak emerges in a narrowly-defined area with higher ethno-racial fractionalization it enjoys lower chances of end-year reparation. After accounting for socio-economic and infrastructural factors, our preferred estimate suggests that moving from the 10th to the 90th percentile of the fractionalization distribution is associated to a 5.7 percentage point decrease in the probability of reparation, compared with an already low average of 3.7%. This result is robust to different definitions of the community surrounding a leak and to the inclusion of competing measures of diversity. Consistent with our framework, social capital appears to be especially lower in communities fragmented across ethno-racial lines. In turn, lower social capital is negatively associated to leak reparation. | |
| dc.fuente.origen | WOS | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2024.104037 | |
| dc.identifier.eissn | 1879-2308 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0166-0462 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2024.104037 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/90380 | |
| dc.identifier.wosid | WOS:001267048300001 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.revista | Regional science and urban economics | |
| dc.rights | acceso restringido | |
| dc.subject | Diversity | |
| dc.subject | Collective action | |
| dc.subject | Public goods | |
| dc.subject | Natural gas leaks | |
| dc.subject | Environment | |
| dc.subject.ods | 01 No Poverty | |
| dc.subject.ods | 10 Reduced Inequality | |
| dc.subject.odspa | 01 Fin de la pobreza | |
| dc.subject.odspa | 10 Reducción de las desigualdades | |
| dc.title | The diversity we breath: Community diversity and gas leak management | |
| dc.type | artículo | |
| dc.volumen | 108 | |
| sipa.index | WOS | |
| sipa.trazabilidad | WOS;2025-01-12 |