Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/234788 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
Document de travail No. 2019-03
Publisher: 
Université du Québec à Montréal, École des sciences de la gestion (ESG UQAM), Département des sciences économiques, Montréal
Abstract: 
A corollary of the First Law of Geography and the Principle of Homophily is that "near things are more similar than distant things." We test that proposition using spatially fine-grained data on thousands of colocation patterns of ethnic groups in the six largest Canadian metropolitan areas. The geographic patterns reveal that groups that are more similar along various non-spatial dimensions- language, culture, religion, genetics, and historico-political relationships-colocate more. These results are robust to numerous controls and provide a quantitative glimpse of the 'deep roots' of homophily.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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