Is Diversity a Strength? A Look at the Data

If you live in any country in the west you are probably all too familiar with the phrase diversity is our strength, repeated almost as a religious mantra by establishment politicians and proponents of multiculturalism. In this video I take a look at what sociological and economic studies have to tell us about the effects of diversity.

Studies cited:

Trust, Inequality and Ethnic Heterogeneity: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1475-4932.2006.00339.x

Ethnic Diversity and Social Trust Evidence from the Micro-Context: https://politicalscience.ku.dk/staff/Academic_staff/?pure=files%2F130251172%2FDinesen_S_nderskov_Ethnic_Diversity_and_Social_Trust_Forthcoming_ASR.pdf

Civic Engagement and Community Heterogeneity: An Economist's Perspective: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3687816#metadata_info_tab_contents

Robert Puttnam - E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and Community in the Twenty-first Century: https://www.puttingourdifferencestowork.com/pdf/j.1467-9477.2007.00176%20Putnam%20Diversity.pdf

The Social Effects of Ethnic Diversity at the Local Level:
A Natural Experiment with Exogenous Residential Allocation: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/686010

Why Doesn’t The US Have A European-Style Welfare State?: https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/glaeser/files/why_doesnt_the_u.s._have_a_european-style_welfare_state.pdf

Ethnic Diversity and Social Trust: A Narrative and Meta-Analytical Review: https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev-polisci-052918-020708
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