Table IX:

Country-of-Origin Population Diversity and Individual-Level Trust among Second-Generation U.S. Immigrants

	Trust
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)
Population diversity (ancestral)	−14.670*** (4.234)	−15.036*** (3.736)	−10.175** (4.483)	−9.820** (4.546)	−12.343*** (2.368)	−12.358*** (1.714)
Ethnic fractionalization (ancestral)			0.014 (0.182)		0.004 (0.202)
Ethnolinguistic polarization (ancestral)				−0.028 (0.094)		−0.012 (0.122)
Regional dummies (ancestral)	×	×	×	×	×	×
GSS year		×	×	×	×	×
Baseline individual controls			×	×	×	×
Income dummies			×	×	×	×
Education dummies			×	×	×	×
Religion dummies			×	×	×	×
Region of interview dummies			×	×	×	×
Geographical controls (ancestral)				×	×	×
Number of Observations	2294	2294	1785	1785	1785	1785
Adjusted R2	0.029	0.036	0.096	0.096	0.096	0.096
Effect of 10th-90th %ile move in diversity	−1.032*** (0.298)	−1.058*** (0.263)	−0.716** (0.315)	−0.691** (0.320)	−0.868*** (0.167)	−0.869*** (0.121)

Notes: This table presents the results of an individual-level OLS regression analysis of interpersonal trust among second-generation migrants in the US on population diversity in their parental country of origin (as captured by ancestry-adjusted predicted diversity; Ashraf and Galor (2013a)), accounting for a range of individual-level socioeconomic characteristics (i.e., age, gender, income, religion, education), as well as time period fixed effects, parental region fixed effects, and the US host region fixed-effect. The estimated effect associated with increasing population diversity from the tenth to the ninetieth percentile of its distribution is expressed in terms of the change in the trust variable. Heteroskedasticity-robust standard errors, clustered multi-dimensionally at both the ancestral country and the US region of interview, are reported in parentheses.

^***denotes statistical significance at the 1 percent level,

^**at the 5 percent level, and

^*at the 10 percent level.