Distinct but Not Marginal: Housing Informality, Collective Action, and Political Behavior in Indonesia

• In Event: Urbanization in the Global South

Brief Overview

Does living in slums cause marginalization? Using a representative household survey data in Indonesia across 20 years (N ≈ 30,000), I find housing informality does not decrease but leads to different types of political and social participation.

Author

• Ying Gao, Massachusetts Institute of Technology