Ça n'a duré qu'une heure. mais j'espère que ce n'était pas la dernière fois !

I'm sure you know Young & Holsteen's multivrs (prev. mrobust): ideas.repec.org/c/boc/bocode... // Book forthcoming: www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

5/ We think our findings have implications beyond neighborhoods, such as whether people have a sense of ownership in their workplace or other communities. More on that forthcoming... Meanwhile, check out the "just accepted" paper in AJS! Please DM for access.

4/ To be clear, territoriality is not inherently good. Feeling ownership of one's space can foster prosocial behaviors and resilience, but it can also reinforce parochialism and bigotry. Exploring these trade-offs in local communities and organizations is a research frontier.

3/ Using NYC neighborhoods during the early Covid-19 pandemic, we show that where people were more invested in their neighborhood (e.g., through homeownership, stability, or property improvements), norm enforcement (311 complaints) and compliance (staying home) were higher. #call311

2/ What excited us most was the ability to study norm emergence in a real-life setting. Our findings show that neighborhood context shapes what has often been understood as a primarily psychological process. Place matters, once again.

Bob loves this paper, as everyone who's attended the @casbsstanford.bsky.social summer institute on organizational effectiveness can attest.