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 …

Since the growth of research into neighbourhood effects on young people's health in the
1980s, there have been major societal changes and scientific methodological …

Abstract Nearly 1,000 officer-involved killings occur each year in the United States. This
article documents the large, racially disparate effects of these events on the educational and …

Why do certain people commit acts of crime? Why does crime happen in certain places?
Presenting an ambitious new study designed to test a pioneering new theory of the causes …

In this second edition of Counterfactuals and Causal Inference, completely revised and
expanded, the essential features of the counterfactual approach to observational data …

It is widely believed that countries with greater levels of income inequality also have lower
levels of intergenerational mobility. This relationship, known as the Great Gatsby Curve …

Students of social inequality have noted the presence of mechanisms militating toward
cumulative advantage and increasing inequality. Social scientists have established that …

Traditionally, education policy focuses on reforms that address class size, teaching and
learning within classrooms, school choice, and changes in leadership as ways to improve …

Criminology is a fragmented discipline and its key theoretical and empirical insights are
poorly integrated. Situational Action Theory (SAT) was developed to overcome key …

Neighbourhood effects research is at a crossroads. After decades of qualitative and
quantitative empirical studies aiming to determine how much neighbourhoods affect life …