Neighborhood and Life Chances : : How Place Matters in Modern America / / ed. by Harriet B. Newburger, Susan M. Wachter, Eugenie L. Birch.

Does the place where you lived as a child affect your health as an adult? To what degree does your neighbor's success influence your own potential? The importance of place is increasingly recognized in urban research as an important variable in understanding individual and household outcomes. P...

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]
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Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:The City in the Twenty-First Century
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Physical Description:1 online resource (392 p.) :; 34 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Preface
  • Part I. People and Places: Heath, Education, and Safety
  • Chapter 1. Health and Residential Location
  • Chapter 2. The Place of Race in Health Disparities: How Family Background and Neighborhood Conditions in Childhood Impact Later-Life Health
  • Chapter 3. Educational Interventions: Their Effects on the Achievement of Poor Children
  • Chapter 4. Before or After the Bell? School Context and Neighborhood Effects on Student Achievement
  • Chapter 5. Neighborhoods, Social Interactions, and Crime: What Does the Evidence Show?
  • Chapter 6. Daily Activities and Violence in Community Landscapes
  • Part II. Geographies of Opportunity
  • Chapter 7. Exploring Changes in Low-Income Neighborhoods in the 1990s
  • Chapter 8. Reinventing Older Communities Through Mixed-Income Development: What Are We Learning from Chicago's Public Housing Transformation?
  • Chapter 9. Reinventing Older Communities: Does Place Matter?
  • Part III. Moving People Out of Poverty
  • Chapter 10. An Overview of Moving to Opportunity: A Random Assignment Housing Mobility Study in Five U.S. Cities
  • Chapter 11. How Does Leaving High-Poverty Neighborhoods Affect the Employment Prospects of Low-Income Mothers and Youth? Evidence from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment
  • Chapter 12. Teens, Mental Health, and Moving to Opportunity
  • Chapter 13. Changing the Geography of Opportunity by Helping Poor Households Move Out of Concentrated Poverty: Neighborhood Effects and Policy Design
  • Part IV. Segregation: The Power of Place
  • Chapter 14. Are Mixed Neighborhoods Always Unstable? Two-Sided and One-Sided Tipping
  • Chapter 15. Preferences for Hispanic Neighborhoods
  • Chapter 16. Increasing Diversity and the Future of U.S. Housing Segregation
  • Chapter 17. Understanding Racial Segregation: What Is Known About the Effect of Housing Discrimination?
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • List of Contributors
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments