Contributor
Newburger, Harriet.
Imprint:Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011.
Descriptionxv, 368 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note:PART I. PEOPLE AND PLACES: HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND SAFETY: Health and residential location / Janet Curie -- The place of race in health disparities: how family background and neighborhood condidtions in childhood impac later-life health / Rucker C. Johnson -- Educational interventions: their effects on the achievement of poor children / Brian A. Jacob, Jens Ludwig -- Before or after the bell? School context and neighborhood effects on student achievement / Paul A. Jargowsky, Mohammed El Komi -- Neighborhoods, social interactions, and crime: what does the evidence show? / Steven Raphael, Michael A. Stoll -- Daily activities and violence in community landscapes / Douglas J. Wiebe, Charles C. Branas -- PART II. GEOGRAPHIES OF OPPORTUNITY: Exploring changes in low-income neighborhoods in the 1990s / Ingrid Gould Ellen, Katherine O'Regan -- Reinventing older communities through mixed-income development: what are we learning from Chicago's public housing transformation? / Mark L. Joseph -- Reinventing older communities: does place matter? / Janet Rothenberg Pack -- PART III. MOVING PEOPLE OUT OF POVERTY: An overview of moving to opportunity: a random assignment housing mobility study in five U.S. cities / Lisa A. Gennetian, Lisa Sanbonmatsu, Jens Ludwig -- How does leaving high-poverty neighborhoods affect the employment prospects of low-income mothers and youth? Evidence from the Moving to Opportunity experiment / Xavier de Souza Briggs, Elizabeth Cove, Cynthia Duarte, Margery Austin Turner -- Teens, mental health, and moving to opportunity / Susan Clampet-Lindquist -- Changing the geography of opportunity by helping poor households move out of concentrated poverty: neighborhood effects and policy design / George Glaster -- PART IV. SEGREGATION: THE POWER OF PLACE: Are mixed neighborhoods always unstable? Two-sided and one-sided tipping / David Card, Alexandre Mass, Jesse Rothstein -- Preferences for hispanic neighborhoods / Fernando Ferreia -- Increasing diversity and the future of U.S. housing segregation / Robert DeFina, Lance Hannon -- Understanding racial segregation: what is known about the effect of housing discrimination? / Stephen L. Ross.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references ( p.[317]-349) and index.
