Assistant Professor of Economics Julio Videras published a paper "Ethnic Heterogeneity and the Enforcement of Environmental Regulation," in the Review of Social Economy, vol. LXIV, No. 4, December 2006 (with Christopher J. Bordoni). The paper, co-authored with former Hamilton student Christopher Bordoni, is the result of a collaboration following a Hamilton College Levitt Cetner Research Fellowship in 2004.
The paper examines the relationship between the enforcement of environmental regulations and ethnic heterogeneity. The research focuses on administrative penalties assessed by state regulators in New York and New Jersey in 1999 and 2000. The results show that the percentage of nonwhite population is positively related with administrative penalties imposed on violators. However, penalties are lower in more ethnically heterogeneous communities.
The paper examines the relationship between the enforcement of environmental regulations and ethnic heterogeneity. The research focuses on administrative penalties assessed by state regulators in New York and New Jersey in 1999 and 2000. The results show that the percentage of nonwhite population is positively related with administrative penalties imposed on violators. However, penalties are lower in more ethnically heterogeneous communities.
