Social capital II: determinants of economic connectedness.

ABSTRACT: Low levels of social interaction across class lines have generated widespread concern^1-4 and are associated with worse outcomes, such as lower rates of upward income mobility^4-7. Here we analyse the determinants of cross-class interaction using data from Facebook, building on the analysis in our companion paper⁷. We show that about half of the social disconnection across socioeconomic lines-measured as the difference in the share of high-socioeconomic status (SES) friends between people with low and high SES-is explained by differences in exposure to people with high SES in groups such as schools and religious organizations. The other half is explained by friending bias-the tendency for people with low SES to befriend people with high SES at lower rates eve

SUBMITTER: Chetty R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9352593 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature