Poverty is not just an indicator: the relationship between income, poverty, and child well-being

A Chaudry, C Wimer - Academic pediatrics, 2016 - Elsevier
In this article, we review the evidence on the effects of poverty and low income on children's
development and well-being. We argue that poverty is an important indicator of societal and …

Where, when, why, and for whom do residential contexts matter? Moving away from the dichotomous understanding of neighborhood effects

P Sharkey, JW Faber - Annual review of sociology, 2014 - annualreviews.org
The literature on neighborhood effects frequently is evaluated or interpreted in relation to the
question,“Do neighborhoods matter?” We argue that this question has had a …

Neighborhoods matter: Assessing the evidence for place effects

E Chyn, LF Katz - Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2021 - aeaweb.org
How does one's place of residence affect individual behavior and long-run outcomes?
Understanding neighborhood and place effects has been a leading question for social …

We built this: Consequences of new deal era intervention in America's racial geography

JW Faber - American Sociological Review, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The contemporary practice of homeownership in the United States was born out of
government programs adopted during the New Deal. The Home Owners Loan Corporation …

The impacts of neighborhoods on intergenerational mobility I: Childhood exposure effects

R Chetty, N Hendren - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We show that the neighborhoods in which children grow up shape their earnings, college
attendance rates, and fertility and marriage patterns by studying more than 7 million families …

What is your estimand? Defining the target quantity connects statistical evidence to theory

I Lundberg, R Johnson… - American Sociological …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
We make only one point in this article. Every quantitative study must be able to answer the
question: what is your estimand? The estimand is the target quantity—the purpose of the …

The effects of exposure to better neighborhoods on children: New evidence from the moving to opportunity experiment

R Chetty, N Hendren, LF Katz - American Economic Review, 2016 - aeaweb.org
Abstract The Moving to Opportunity (MTO) experiment offered randomly selected families
housing vouchers to move from high-poverty housing projects to lower-poverty …

[图书][B] Cycle of segregation: Social processes and residential stratification

M Krysan, K Crowder - 2017 - books.google.com
The Fair Housing Act of 1968 outlawed housing discrimination by race and provided an
important tool for dismantling legal segregation. But almost fifty years later, residential …

The growth of incarceration in the United States: Exploring causes and consequences

J Travis, B Western, FS Redburn - 2014 - academicworks.cuny.edu
After decades of stability from the 1920s to the early 1970s, the rate of incarceration in the
United States more than quadrupled in the past four decades. The Committee on the …

The geography of racial/ethnic test score gaps

SF Reardon, D Kalogrides… - American Journal of …, 2019 - journals.uchicago.edu
The authors estimate racial/ethnic achievement gaps in several hundred metropolitan areas
and several thousand school districts in the United States using the results of roughly 200 …