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Chicago When It Sizzles
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
The Heat Wave
Sociologist eric clinnenberg spent time with vulnerable people in chicago communities. He compared two adjacent neighbourhoods, south lawndale and northlorndale. North lorndale had a heat wave death rate ten times higher than south larndale. Southlawndale was equally poor, but it was overcrowded rather than deserted. As a result, it felt bustling and safe. In each neighbourhood, when the crisis struck, people kept behaving as they had four years earlier.
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