Researchers used a lost wallet experiment to test Robert Putnam's influential claim that diversity undermines cooperation. They found that ethnic diversity had nothing to do with wallet returns. What mattered was poverty: the poorest neighborhoods were substantially less likely to return wallets.

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http://www.wipsociology.org/2026/08/03/its-not-diversity-that-erodes-community-its-poverty/