Although it is often acknowledged that social and environmental factors interact to produce
racial and ethnic environmental health disparities, it is still unclear how this occurs. Despite …

This paper examines the theoretical propositions and empirical evidence linking policies
and fertility. More specifically, the analysis presented in this paper draws attention to the …

The current paper synthesizes theory and data from the field of life history (LH) evolution to
advance a new developmental theory of variation in human LH strategies. The theory posits …

We propose a theoretical framework on the structural sources and spatially embedded
nature of three mechanisms that produce collective efficacy for children. Using survey data …

Despite the fact that most people become parents and everyone who has ever lived has had
parents, parenting remains a mystifying subject about which almost everyone has opinions …

For decades now, scholars and politicians alike have argued that the concentration of
poverty in city housing projects would produce distrust, alienation, apathy, and social …

For decades, racial residential segregation has been observed to vary with health outcomes
for African Americans, although only recently has interest increased in the public health …

The authors examine the research evidence on the effect of residential segregation on
health, identify research gaps, and propose new research directions. Four recommendations …

This paper describes a range of methods which have been proposed to study interactions in
economic and social contexts. By interactions, we refer to interdependences between …

This article summarizes two decades of research about family, and especially parental,
influences on the risk of adolescents becoming pregnant or causing a pregnancy. Research …