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Neighborhood and Life Chances : How Place Matters in Modern America.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The City in the Twenty-First Century SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (393 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812200089
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Neighborhood and Life ChancesDDC classification:
  • 304.2/30973
LOC classification:
  • HT123
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of 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 HousingMobility Study in Five U.S. Cities -- Chapter 11. How Does Leaving High-Poverty Neighborhoods Affect the EmploymentProspects of Low-Income Mothers and Youth? Evidence from the Moving to OpportunityExperiment -- Chapter 12. Teens, Mental Health, and Moving to Opportunity -- Chapter 13. Changing the Geography of Opportunity by Helping Poor Households MoveOut 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-SidedTipping -- Chapter 15. Preferences for Hispanic Neighborhoods -- Chapter 16. Increasing Diversity and the Future of U.S. Housing Segregation Robert DeFina and Lance Hannon.
Chapter 17. Understanding Racial Segregation: What Is Known About the Effect of Housing Discrimination? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: Neighborhood and Life Chances brings together researchers from a range of disciplines to demonstrate that place matters in education, physical health, crime, violence, housing, family income, mental health, and discrimination--issues that determine the quality of life among low-income residents of urban areas.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of 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 HousingMobility Study in Five U.S. Cities -- Chapter 11. How Does Leaving High-Poverty Neighborhoods Affect the EmploymentProspects of Low-Income Mothers and Youth? Evidence from the Moving to OpportunityExperiment -- Chapter 12. Teens, Mental Health, and Moving to Opportunity -- Chapter 13. Changing the Geography of Opportunity by Helping Poor Households MoveOut 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-SidedTipping -- Chapter 15. Preferences for Hispanic Neighborhoods -- Chapter 16. Increasing Diversity and the Future of U.S. Housing Segregation Robert DeFina and Lance Hannon.

Chapter 17. Understanding Racial Segregation: What Is Known About the Effect of Housing Discrimination? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments.

Neighborhood and Life Chances brings together researchers from a range of disciplines to demonstrate that place matters in education, physical health, crime, violence, housing, family income, mental health, and discrimination--issues that determine the quality of life among low-income residents of urban areas.

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