The Institut d’Economia de Barcelona has published a new Info IEB entitled ‘The social effects of local diversity‘, in which the researcher Camille Hemet identifies the effects of ethnic diversity in social relationships and in the maintenance of goods in public housing blocks. To run the analysis, Hemet has based on information from the National Survey on Housing in France, which provides specific information about the quality of housing and interpersonal conflicts between neighboring in public residences with low rents or Habitation à Loyer mode (HLM).

In his article, Hemet provides a new methodology in the analysis of the effects of diversity. So far, the literature on the topic has analyzed the impact of this diversity on collective action through the lobbies. This report IEB, the goal is to understand how diversity affects relations between neighbors and housing conditions.

The new IEB report summarizes the main points of the article of Hemet with Yann Algans of Sciences Po, and David Laitin of Stanford University, entitled ‘The Social Effects of Ethnic Diversity at the Local Level: a Natural Experiment with exogenous Residential Allocation”, that will be published in the Journal of Political Economy, one of the five greatest impact journals in economics.