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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Birch, Eugenie L., editor.

Newburger, Harriet B., editor.

Wachter, Susan M., editor.

Series:

The City in the Twenty-First Century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--United States.

Cities and towns.

Neighborhoods--United States.

Neighborhoods.

Place (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (386 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2011]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. Place matters in education, physical health, crime, violence, housing, family income, mental health, and discrimination-issues that determine the quality of life, especially among low-income residents of urban areas.Neighborhood and Life Chances: How Place Matters in Modern America brings together researchers from a range of disciplines to present the findings of studies in the fields of education, health, and housing. The results are intriguing and surprising, particularly the debate over Moving to Opportunity, an experiment conducted by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, designed to test directly the effects of relocating individuals away from areas of concentrated poverty. Its results, while strong in some respects, showed very different outcomes for boys and girls, with girls more likely than boys to experience positive outcomes. Reviews of the literature in education and health, supplemented by new research, demonstrate that the problems associated with residing in a negative environment are indisputable, but also suggest the directions in which solutions may lie.The essays collected in this volume give readers a clear sense of the magnitude of contemporary challenges in metropolitan America and of the role that place plays in reinforcing them. Although the contributors suggest many practical immediate interventions, they also recognize the vital importance of continued long-term efforts to rectify place-based limitations on lifetime opportunities.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Abbreviations

Preface

Part I. People and Places: Heath, Education, and Safety

Chapter 1. Health and Residential Location / Currie, Janet

Chapter 2. The Place of Race in Health Disparities: How Family Background and Neighborhood Conditions in Childhood Impact Later-Life Health / Johnson, Rucker C.

Chapter 3. Educational Interventions: Their Effects on the Achievement of Poor Children / Jacob, Brian A. / Ludwig, Jens

Chapter 4. Before or After the Bell? School Context and Neighborhood Effects on Student Achievement / Jargowsky, Paul A. / El Komi, Mohamed

Chapter 5. Neighborhoods, Social Interactions, and Crime: What Does the Evidence Show? / Raphael, Steven / Stoll, Michael A.

Chapter 6. Daily Activities and Violence in Community Landscapes / Wiebe, Douglas J. / Branas, Charles C.

Part II. Geographies of Opportunity

Chapter 7. Exploring Changes in Low-Income Neighborhoods in the 1990's / Gould Ellen, Ingrid / O'Regan, Katherine

Chapter 8. Reinventing Older Communities Through Mixed-Income Development: What Are We Learning from Chicago's Public Housing Transformation? / Joseph, Mark L.

Chapter 9. Reinventing Older Communities: Does Place Matter? / Rothenberg Pack, Janet

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 / Gennetian, Lisa A. / Sanbonmatsu, Lisa / Ludwig, Jens

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 / de Souza Briggs, Xavier / Cove, Elizabeth / Duarte, Cynthia / Turner, Margery Austin

Chapter 12. Teens, Mental Health, and Moving to Opportunity / Clampet-Lundquist, Susan

Chapter 13. Changing the Geography of Opportunity by Helping Poor Households Move Out of Concentrated Poverty: Neighborhood Effects and Policy Design / Galster, George

Part IV. Segregation: The Power of Place

Chapter 14. Are Mixed Neighborhoods Always Unstable? Two-Sided and One-Sided Tipping / Card, David / Mas, Alexandre / Rothstein, Jesse

Chapter 15. Preferences for Hispanic Neighborhoods / Ferreira, Fernando

Chapter 16. Increasing Diversity and the Future of U.S. Housing Segregation / DeFina, Robert / Hannon, Lance

Chapter 17. Understanding Racial Segregation: What Is Known About the Effect of Housing Discrimination? / Ross, Stephen L.

Notes

Bibliography

List of Contributors

Index

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9781283897556

1283897555

9780812200089

081220008X

OCLC:

793012552