Neighborhood Poverty

by Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne; Duncan, Greg J.; Aber, J. Lawrence

• ISBN13: 9780871541895
• ISBN10: 0871541890
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-08-01
• Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation

Table of Contents

Introduction	xiii
Martha A. Gephart
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
Ecological Perspectives on the Neighborhood Context of Urban Poverty: Past and Present	1	(22)
Robert J. Sampson
Jeffrey D. Morenoff
The Influence of Neighborhoods on Children's Development: A Theoretical Perspective and a Research Agenda	23	(25)
Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr.
Mary Elizabeth Hughes
Bringing Families Back In: Neghborhood Effects on Child Development	48	(17)
Robin L. Jarrett
Understanding the Neighborhood Context for Children and Families: Combining Epidemiological and Ethnographic Approaches	65	(15)
Jill E. Korbin
Claudia J. Coulton
Sibling Estimates of Neighborhood Effects	80	(14)
Daniel Aaronson
Capturing Social Process for Testing Mediational Models of Neighborhood Effects	94	(26)
Thomas D. Cook
Shobha C. Shagle
Serdar M. Degirmencioglu
Community Influences on Adolescent Achievement and Deviance	120	(12)
Nancy Darling
Laurence Steinberg
On Ways of Thinking About Measuring Neghborhoods: Implications for Studying Context and Developmental Outcomes for Children	132	(13)
Linda M. Burton
Townsand Price-Spratlen
Margaret Beale Spencer
An Alternative Approach to Assessing Neighborhood Effects on Early Adolescent Achievement and Problem Behavior	145	(19)
Margaret Beale Spencer
Paul A. McDermott
Linda M. Burton
Tedd Jay Kochman
Neighborhood Effects and State and Local Policy	164	(18)
Prudence Brown
Harold A. Richman
Communities as Place, Face, and Space: Provision of Services to Poor, Urban Children and Their Families	182	(25)
Tama Leventhal
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
Sheila B. Kamerman
References	207	(24)
Index	231