{"623525":{"#nid":"623525","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Study Examines Diversity, Social Mistrust","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Economics Associate Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/econ.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/willie-belton\u0022\u003EWillie Belton\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026#39;s research was profiled\u0026nbsp;in the \u003Cem\u003EPhys.org\u003C\/em\u003E article \u0026quot;Study Examines Diversity, Social Mistrust,\u0026quot; July 15.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHere\u0026#39;s an excerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESome researchers have argued for years that high rates of ethnic diversity in a community can eat away at social capital, the interconnectedness among neighbors that helps give rise to a functioning society. A new study led by a Georgia Institute of Technology economist has found new data-based evidence for that theory that also may help explain why it happens.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EInstead of relying on behavioral survey data, as key prior studies have, Associate Professor Willie Belton and his coauthors looked at 15 years of county-level U.S. Census data with details on black, Latino, white, and Asian population, along with another data set tracking membership in social, religious, and political groups\u0026mdash;measures researchers have argued are good proxies for\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/social+trust\/\u0022 rel=\u0022tag\u0022\u003Esocial trust\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe full article can be read \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-07-diversity-social-mistrust.html\u0022\u003Ehere.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/econ.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EThe School of Economics\u003C\/a\u003E is a unit of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34559","created_gmt":"2019-07-18 22:24:57","changed_gmt":"2019-07-18 22:30:35","author":"pdemerritt3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Katherine Roberts","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-07-diversity-social-mistrust.html","dateline":{"date":"2019-07-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-07-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"611741":{"id":"611741","type":"image","title":"Willie Belton","body":null,"created":"1537464872","gmt_created":"2018-09-20 17:34:32","changed":"1537464872","gmt_changed":"2018-09-20 17:34:32","alt":"","file":{"fid":"232886","name":"12.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/12_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/12_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":148389,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/12_0.png?itok=7bZ4Oe6b"}}},"media_ids":["611741"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1282","name":"School of Economics"}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"13346","name":"Willie Belton"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}