Tama Leventhal
Biographic Data
| ID | 346756 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tama Leventhal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tama |
| FAMILY NAME | Leventhal |
| SIGNATURE | LEVENTHAL T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tufts University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 54 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1609 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 54 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 16 |
Breaking down the STEM pathway: Utilizing neighborhood resources to improve Mexican‐origin adolescents' life chances
This paper aims to identify neighborhood institutional resources (e.g., nonprofit organizations, libraries, and labor market conditions) that promote Mexican‐origin high school students' progress in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) pathway into postsecondary education. A nationally representative, longitudinal sample of 1340 Mexican‐origin students from the Educational Longitudinal Study of 2002 was used to investigate…
Elementary disruptions? Exploring residential move type, timing, and duration of implications during middle childhood
Moving is common during middle childhood, but links between move type and children's development are less well understood. Using nationally-representative, longitudinal data (2010–2016) of ~9900 U.S. kindergarteners (52% boys, 51.48% White, 26.11% Hispanic/Latino, 10.63% Black, 11.78% Asian/Pacific Islander), we conducted multiple-group fixed-effects models estimating associations of within- and between-neighborhood moves, family income, and chil…
School-based extracurricular activity involvement and high school dropout among at-risk students: Consistency matters
Encouraging involvement in school-based extracurricular activities (ECA) may be important for preventing high school dropout. However, the potential of these activities remains underexploited, perhaps because studies linking ECA involvement and dropout are rare and based on decades-old data. Previous studies also ignore key parameters of student involvement. The present study expands and updates this limited literature by using recent data from a…
High residential mobility and young children's healthy development in low-income families: Exploring the moderating role of Head Start
Why do extracurricular activities prevent dropout more effectively in some high schools than in others? A mixed-method examination of organizational dynamics
This study describes policies and practices implemented in 12 high schools (Quebec, Canada) that more or less effectively leveraged extracurricular activities (ECA) to prevent dropout among vulnerable students. Following an explanatory sequential mixed design, three school profiles ( Effective, Ineffective , and Mixed ) were derived based on quantitative student-reported data. Qualitative interviews with frontline staff revealed that in Effective…
Exposure to community violence and Children's mental Health: A quasi-experimental examination
New Destinations and the Early Childhood Education of Mexican-Origin Children
This study examined differences in exposure to early childhood education among Mexican-origin children across Latino/a destinations. Early childhood educational enrollment patterns, which are highly sensitive to community resources and foundational components of long-term educational inequalities, can offer a valuable window into how destinations may be shaping incorporation among Mexican-origin families. Integrating data from the Early Childhood…
When neighborhoods matter: Developmental timing and youth reading achievement and problem behaviors
Neighborhood context and center-based child care use: Does immigrant status matter
Enriched early childhood experiences: Latina mothers’ perceptions and use of center-Based child care
Pathways of risk and resilience between neighborhood socioeconomic conditions and parenting
Estimating the Effects of Residential Mobility: A Methodological Note
This article reviews the methodological challenges of estimating a causal association between mobility and children's cognitive, social, emotional, and physical development. Utilizing a comprehensive set of empirical articles published in the past 25 years that employ quantitative methods, it describes the limitations of previous studies and the innovative ways that researchers have attempted to deal with them. The concept of mobility is inconsis…
Finding Home: A Qualitative Approach to Understanding Adolescent Mothers’ Housing Instability
Many low‐income Latina adolescent mothers face instability in their housing circumstances, which has implications for their long‐term prospects and that of their children. This study used longitudinal, ethnographic data from Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three‐City Study to explore experiences of low‐income, Latina adolescent mothers ( N = 15) with unstable housing who primarily rely on their families or the families of their significant oth…
Residential Mobility and Adolescent Achievement and Behavior: Understanding Timing and Extent of Mobility
Residential mobility is generally viewed as an adverse event for adolescents' development. Less is known about whether moving during adolescence, childhood, or both periods explains this connection and whether the extent of mobility matters. Analytic shortcomings with much of the research call into question extant findings. We examined associations between childhood, adolescent, and child-adolescent mobility and adolescents' achievement (math and…
Stressors and Turning Points in High School and Dropout: A Stress Process, Life Course Framework
High school dropout is commonly seen as the result of a long-term process of failure and disengagement. As useful as it is, this view has obscured the heterogeneity of pathways leading to dropout. Research suggests, for instance, that some students leave school not as a result of protracted difficulties but in response to situations that emerge late in their schooling careers, such as health problems or severe peer victimization. Conversely, othe…
Family Background, School-Age Trajectories of Activity Participation, and Academic Achievement at the Start of High School
Applying latent class and regression techniques to data from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development ( n = 997), this study explored the potential academic advantages of time spent in out-of-school activities. Of particular interest was how these potential advantages played out in relation to the timing and duration of activity participation and the family contexts in which it occurred. Participation closer to the start of high …
Housing Characteristics over Time: Identifying Patterns for Low-Income Families
This study assessed how household size, housing quality, housing cost burden, years at residence, receipt of housing assistance, and neighborhood disorder shifted together over a 6-year span in a sample of low-income families from three cities (N = 2,228). Most housing characteristics were stable over time, but housing problems and neighborhood disorder increased. Models comparing results for Hispanic and African American families identified grea…
School mobility and school-age children’s social adjustment
This study explored how nonpromotional school changes, a potentially major event for children, were associated with 3 forms of social maladjustment: isolation/withdrawal, affiliation with maladjusted peers, and aggression toward peers. Given that school mobility frequently co-occurs with family transitions, the moderating role of these transitions was investigated. These issues were examined in 2 longitudinal samples of U.S. (N = 1,364) and Canad…
Exposure to Neighborhood Affluence and Poverty in Childhood and Adolescence and Academic Achievement and Behavior
Evidence points to associations between the socioeconomic composition of neighborhoods and children's and adolescents' development. A minimal amount of research, however, examines how timing of exposure to neighborhood socioeconomic conditions matters. This study used longitudinal data from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (N = 1,364) to explore if timing of exposure (early childhood, adolescence, and cumulative) to neigh…
The Home and the ‘Hood: Associations Between Housing and Neighborhood Contexts and Adolescent Functioning
Adolescents from low-income families face various opportunities and constraints as they develop, with possible ramifications for their well-being. Two contexts of particular importance are the home and the neighborhood. Using adolescent data from the first two waves of the Three City Study ( N = 1,169), this study explored associations among housing problems and neighborhood disorder with adolescents' socioemotional problems, and how these associ…
Neighborhood context and immigrant young children’s development
This study explored how neighborhood social processes and resources, relevant to immigrant families and immigrant neighborhoods, contribute to young children's behavioral functioning and achievement across diverse racial/ethnic groups. Data were drawn from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods, a neighborhood-based, longitudinal study with cohorts of children first seen at birth, 3 years, and 6 years of age and followed over 6…
Adolescent Academic Achievement and School Engagement: An Examination of the Role of School-Wide Peer Culture
Relations between housing characteristics and the well-being of low-income children and adolescents
Extant research has highlighted the importance of multiple characteristics of housing but has not comprehensively assessed a broad range of housing characteristics and their relative contributions to children's well-being. Using a representative, longitudinal sample of low-income children and adolescents from low-income urban neighborhoods (N = 2,437, ages 2-21 years) from the Three-City Study, this study assessed housing quality, stability, type…
Neighborhood Processes, Self-Efficacy, and Adolescent Mental Health
Self-efficacy beliefs are central to mental health. Because adolescents' neighborhoods shape opportunities for experiences of control, predictability, and safety, we propose that neighborhood conditions are associated with adolescents' self-efficacy and, in turn, their internalizing problems (i.e., depression/anxiety symptoms). We tested these hypotheses using three waves of data from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods ( N …
Changes in neighborhood poverty from 1990 to 2000 and youth's problem behaviors
This study used data from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods, a multilevel, longitudinal study of children sampled from 80 diverse neighborhoods, to explore associations among changes in neighborhood poverty from 1990 to 2000 and changes in youth's internalizing problems and property and violent offenses over 6 years (N = 3,324; mean age across waves = 12.6 years). After accounting for a host of background characteristics a…
The neighborhoods they live in: The effects of neighborhood residence on child and adolescent outcomes
This article provides a comprehensive review of research on the effects of neighborhood residence on child and adolescent well-being. The first section reviews key methodological issues. The following section considers links between neighborhood characteristics and child outcomes and suggests the importance of high socioeconomic status (SES) for achievement and low SES and residential instability for behavioral/emotional outcomes. The third secti…
Moving to Opportunity: An Experimental Study of Neighborhood Effects on Mental Health
Objectives. The health consequences of neighborhood poverty are a public health problem. Data were obtained to examine links between neighborhood residence and mental health outcomes. Methods. Moving to Opportunity was a randomized, controlled trial in which families from public housing in high-poverty neighborhoods were moved into private housing in near-poor or nonpoor neighborhoods, with a subset remaining in public housing. At the 3-year foll…
Sexual Initiation in Early Adolescence: The Nexus of Parental and Community Control
This study explores the link between neighborhood collective efficacy and the timing of first intercourse for a sample of urban youth. The authors hypothesize that youth who experience lower levels of parental monitoring and higher levels of exposure to neighborhood environments are more likely to be influenced by collective supervision capacity. The study also examines the extent to which parental and neighborhood controls differ in their impact…
A Randomized Study of Neighborhood Effects on Low-Income Children's Educational Outcomes
Experimental data from the Moving to Opportunity for Fair Housing Demonstration were used to examine (a) if moving from high- to low-poverty neighborhoods (via randomization) was associated with low-income minority children's achievement, grade retention, and suspensions/expulsions; (b) if moving minimized gender differences in these outcomes; and (c) potential mediators of observed program effects. Data on school-age children (mean age = 11.79 y…
Neighborhood context and racial differences in early adolescent sexual activity
Evidence suggests that African American youths initiate sexual activity at earlier ages than do European American or Latino youths. Using data from a multilevel study in Chicago, we developed and tested a neighborhood-based model of the timing of first adolescent intercourse that emphasizes the impact of neighborhood structural disadvantage and collective efficacy on early sexual activity (at ages 11 to 16). In turn, we explored the extent to whi…
Relations between housing characteristics and the well-being of low-income children and adolescents
Extant research has highlighted the importance of multiple characteristics of housing but has not comprehensively assessed a broad range of housing characteristics and their relative contributions to children's well-being. Using a representative, longitudinal sample of low-income children and adolescents from low-income urban neighborhoods (N = 2,437, ages 2-21 years) from the Three-City Study, this study assessed housing quality, stability, type…
Housing and child development
Understanding the positive role of neighborhood socioeconomic advantage in achievement: The contribution of the home, child care, and school environments
The goal of this study was to examine the mechanisms underlying associations between neighborhood socioeconomic advantage and children's achievement trajectories between ages 54 months and 15 years. Results of hierarchical linear growth models based on a diverse sample of 1,364 children indicate that neighborhood socioeconomic advantage was nonlinearly associated with youths' initial vocabulary and reading scores, such that the presence of educat…
Neighborhood Structural Inequality, Collective Efficacy, and Sexual Risk Behavior among Urban Youth
We draw on collective efficacy theory to extend a contextual model of early adolescent sexual behavior. Specifically, we hypothesize that neighborhood structural disadvantage-as measured by levels of concentrated poverty, residential instability, and aspects of immigrant concentration-and diminished collective efficacy have consequences for the prevalence of early adolescent multiple sexual partnering. Findings from random effects multinomial log…
Short-term effects of moving from public housing in poor to middle-class neighborhoods on low-income, minority adults' outcomes
Welcome to the Neighborhood? Long‐Term Impacts of Moving to Low‐Poverty Neighborhoods on Poor Children's and Adolescents' Outcomes
This study examined 7‐year follow‐up data from the Yonkers Project, a study of a 1985 court‐ordered neighborhood desegregation program in Yonkers, NY. Low‐income Black and Latino families residing in impoverished neighborhoods who were randomly selected to relocate to publicly funded townhouses in middle‐class communities and demographically similar families who were not selected to move were interviewed. Self‐ and parent‐report data on 8–18‐year…
Girls in the ’Hood: How Safety Affects the Life Chances of Low-Income Girls
Adolescents growing up in high-poverty neighborhoods are at risk for a range of negative outcomes. Girls face specific threats because of their gender—omnipresent harassment, pressure for early sexual initiation, pervasive intimate partner violence, and high risk of sexual assault.This article uses mixed-methods data from the Three-City Study of Moving to Opportunity (MTO) to explore how moving to lower-poverty neighborhoods may have influenced a…
Neighborhood poverty and public policy: A 5-year follow-up of children's educational outcomes in the New York City moving to opportunity demonstration
Data from the Moving to Opportunity Program, a randomized mobility experiment in which a subset of low-income minority families living in public housing in high-poverty neighborhoods were given vouchers to move to low-poverty neighborhoods, were used to evaluate 1 policy approach for improving children's educational outcomes. Four hundred twenty-five New York City children were seen 2 1/2 and 5 years following relocation (mean age=14.64 years, SD…
Neighborhood Processes, Self-Efficacy, and Adolescent Mental Health
Self-efficacy beliefs are central to mental health. Because adolescents' neighborhoods shape opportunities for experiences of control, predictability, and safety, we propose that neighborhood conditions are associated with adolescents' self-efficacy and, in turn, their internalizing problems (i.e., depression/anxiety symptoms). We tested these hypotheses using three waves of data from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods ( N …
Changes in neighborhood poverty from 1990 to 2000 and youth's problem behaviors
This study used data from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods, a multilevel, longitudinal study of children sampled from 80 diverse neighborhoods, to explore associations among changes in neighborhood poverty from 1990 to 2000 and changes in youth's internalizing problems and property and violent offenses over 6 years (N = 3,324; mean age across waves = 12.6 years). After accounting for a host of background characteristics a…
Moving to Opportunity: Does long-term exposure to 'low-poverty' neighborhoods make a difference for adolescents
Adolescent Transitions to Young Adulthood: Antecedents, Correlates, and Consequences of Adolescent Employment
The antecedents, correlates, and consequences of adolescent employment were investigated in a sample of 251 low‐income, African American youth that were followed since birth. The youth (age: M at preschool = 4.89, SD = .70; M at adolescence = 16.44, SD = .66; M at transition to adulthood = 19.36, SD = .76; and M at early adulthood = 27.67, SD = .75) were the firstborn children of African American teenage mothers who gave birth in Baltimore in the…
Adolescent Academic Achievement and School Engagement: An Examination of the Role of School-Wide Peer Culture
Residential Mobility and Adolescent Achievement and Behavior: Understanding Timing and Extent of Mobility
Residential mobility is generally viewed as an adverse event for adolescents' development. Less is known about whether moving during adolescence, childhood, or both periods explains this connection and whether the extent of mobility matters. Analytic shortcomings with much of the research call into question extant findings. We examined associations between childhood, adolescent, and child-adolescent mobility and adolescents' achievement (math and…
Neighborhood context and immigrant young children’s development
This study explored how neighborhood social processes and resources, relevant to immigrant families and immigrant neighborhoods, contribute to young children's behavioral functioning and achievement across diverse racial/ethnic groups. Data were drawn from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods, a neighborhood-based, longitudinal study with cohorts of children first seen at birth, 3 years, and 6 years of age and followed over 6…
Seven Years Later: Effects of a Neighborhood Mobility Program on Poor Black and Latino Adults' Well-being
This study explored program effects on adults' well-being seven years following the implementation of a court-ordered neighborhood mobility program. Low-income black and Latino adults residing in poor, segregated neighborhoods in Yonkers, New York were randomly selected to relocate to publicly funded town-houses in middle-class neighborhoods within the city. Adults who moved (n = 141) and demographically similar adults who were not selected to mo…
School mobility and school-age children’s social adjustment
This study explored how nonpromotional school changes, a potentially major event for children, were associated with 3 forms of social maladjustment: isolation/withdrawal, affiliation with maladjusted peers, and aggression toward peers. Given that school mobility frequently co-occurs with family transitions, the moderating role of these transitions was investigated. These issues were examined in 2 longitudinal samples of U.S. (N = 1,364) and Canad…
The Home and the ‘Hood: Associations Between Housing and Neighborhood Contexts and Adolescent Functioning
Adolescents from low-income families face various opportunities and constraints as they develop, with possible ramifications for their well-being. Two contexts of particular importance are the home and the neighborhood. Using adolescent data from the first two waves of the Three City Study ( N = 1,169), this study explored associations among housing problems and neighborhood disorder with adolescents' socioemotional problems, and how these associ…
The Homelife Interview from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods: Assessment of Parenting and Home Environment for 3- to 15-Year-Olds
Estimating the Effects of Residential Mobility: A Methodological Note
This article reviews the methodological challenges of estimating a causal association between mobility and children's cognitive, social, emotional, and physical development. Utilizing a comprehensive set of empirical articles published in the past 25 years that employ quantitative methods, it describes the limitations of previous studies and the innovative ways that researchers have attempted to deal with them. The concept of mobility is inconsis…
The neighborhoods they live in: The effects of neighborhood residence on child and adolescent outcomes
This article provides a comprehensive review of research on the effects of neighborhood residence on child and adolescent well-being. The first section reviews key methodological issues. The following section considers links between neighborhood characteristics and child outcomes and suggests the importance of high socioeconomic status (SES) for achievement and low SES and residential instability for behavioral/emotional outcomes. The third secti…
Adolescent Transitions to Young Adulthood: Antecedents, Correlates, and Consequences of Adolescent Employment
The antecedents, correlates, and consequences of adolescent employment were investigated in a sample of 251 low‐income, African American youth that were followed since birth. The youth (age: M at preschool = 4.89, SD = .70; M at adolescence = 16.44, SD = .66; M at transition to adulthood = 19.36, SD = .76; and M at early adulthood = 27.67, SD = .75) were the firstborn children of African American teenage mothers who gave birth in Baltimore in the…
Neighborhood Income and Physical and Social Disorder in Canada: Associations with Young Children's Competencies
This study examined the association of census level, observational, and parent–reported neighborhood characteristics on the verbal and behavioral competencies of a national sample of Canadian preschoolers (N= 3,350). Children's verbal ability scores were positively associated with residing in neighborhoods with affluent residents and negatively associated with residing in neighborhoods with poor residents and in neighborhoods with low cohesion, e…
Children and Youth in Neighborhood Contexts
Neighborhoods are increasingly studied as a context where children and youth develop; however, the extent of neighborhoods' impact remains debatable because it is difficult to disentangle this impact from that of the family context, in part because families have some choice as to where they live. Evidence from randomized experiments, studies using advanced statistical models, and longitudinal studies that control for family characteristics indica…
Moving to Opportunity: An Experimental Study of Neighborhood Effects on Mental Health
Objectives. The health consequences of neighborhood poverty are a public health problem. Data were obtained to examine links between neighborhood residence and mental health outcomes. Methods. Moving to Opportunity was a randomized, controlled trial in which families from public housing in high-poverty neighborhoods were moved into private housing in near-poor or nonpoor neighborhoods, with a subset remaining in public housing. At the 3-year foll…
The EC-Home Across Five National Data Sets in the 3rd to 5th Year of Life
The Homelife Interview from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods: Assessment of Parenting and Home Environment for 3- to 15-Year-Olds
The Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (Home) in Middle Childhood: A Study of Three Large-Scale Data Sets
The Homelife Interview from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods: Assessment of Parenting and Home Environment for 3- to 15-Year-Olds
(2004). The Homelife Interview from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods: Assessment of Parenting and Home Environment for 3- to 15-Year-Olds. Parenting: Vol. 4, No. 2-3, pp. 211-241
The Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (Home) in Middle Childhood: A Study of Three Large-Scale Data Sets
Objective. Conceptually sound subscales for the Middle-Childhood Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (MC-HOME) were created and evaluated utilizing 3 large-scale data sets including children ages 6 to 9 years: the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN), Panel Study of Income Dynamics-Child Development Supplement (PSID-CDS), and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth-Child Supplement (NLSY-CS). Design. Sam…
The EC-Home Across Five National Data Sets in the 3rd to 5th Year of Life
Objective. We developed conceptually based alternatives to the original subscales of the Early Childhood Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment Inventory (EC-HOME), which were created using factor analysis. The reliability and validity of the new subscales was tested using 5 large data sets that include young children whose home environment was assessed with the EC-HOME. Design. In each data set, subscales were generated via a priori…
Neighborhood context and racial differences in early adolescent sexual activity
Evidence suggests that African American youths initiate sexual activity at earlier ages than do European American or Latino youths. Using data from a multilevel study in Chicago, we developed and tested a neighborhood-based model of the timing of first adolescent intercourse that emphasizes the impact of neighborhood structural disadvantage and collective efficacy on early sexual activity (at ages 11 to 16). In turn, we explored the extent to whi…
A Randomized Study of Neighborhood Effects on Low-Income Children's Educational Outcomes
Experimental data from the Moving to Opportunity for Fair Housing Demonstration were used to examine (a) if moving from high- to low-poverty neighborhoods (via randomization) was associated with low-income minority children's achievement, grade retention, and suspensions/expulsions; (b) if moving minimized gender differences in these outcomes; and (c) potential mediators of observed program effects. Data on school-age children (mean age = 11.79 y…
Short-term effects of moving from public housing in poor to middle-class neighborhoods on low-income, minority adults' outcomes
Neighborhood Residence and Mental Health Problems of 5- to 11-Year-Olds
CONTEXT: Little research has investigated possible effects of neighborhood residence on mental health problems in children such as depression, anxiety, and withdrawal. OBJECTIVE: To examine whether children's mental health is associated with neighborhood structural characteristics (concentrated disadvantage, immigrant concentration, and residential stability) and whether neighborhood social processes (collective efficacy and organizational partic…
Neighborhood poverty and public policy: A 5-year follow-up of children's educational outcomes in the New York City moving to opportunity demonstration
Data from the Moving to Opportunity Program, a randomized mobility experiment in which a subset of low-income minority families living in public housing in high-poverty neighborhoods were given vouchers to move to low-poverty neighborhoods, were used to evaluate 1 policy approach for improving children's educational outcomes. Four hundred twenty-five New York City children were seen 2 1/2 and 5 years following relocation (mean age=14.64 years, SD…
Sexual Initiation in Early Adolescence: The Nexus of Parental and Community Control
This study explores the link between neighborhood collective efficacy and the timing of first intercourse for a sample of urban youth. The authors hypothesize that youth who experience lower levels of parental monitoring and higher levels of exposure to neighborhood environments are more likely to be influenced by collective supervision capacity. The study also examines the extent to which parental and neighborhood controls differ in their impact…
Welcome to the Neighborhood? Long‐Term Impacts of Moving to Low‐Poverty Neighborhoods on Poor Children's and Adolescents' Outcomes
This study examined 7‐year follow‐up data from the Yonkers Project, a study of a 1985 court‐ordered neighborhood desegregation program in Yonkers, NY. Low‐income Black and Latino families residing in impoverished neighborhoods who were randomly selected to relocate to publicly funded townhouses in middle‐class communities and demographically similar families who were not selected to move were interviewed. Self‐ and parent‐report data on 8–18‐year…
Neighborhood Disadvantage: Pathways of Effects for Young Children
The present study used Canadian National Longitudinal data to examine a model of the mechanisms through which the effects of neighborhood socioeconomic conditions impact young children's verbal and behavioral outcomes (N= 3,528; M age = 5.05 years, SD= 0.86). Integrating elements of social disorganization theory and family stress models, and results from structural equation models suggest that both neighborhood and family mechanisms played an imp…
Neighborhood Structural Inequality, Collective Efficacy, and Sexual Risk Behavior among Urban Youth
We draw on collective efficacy theory to extend a contextual model of early adolescent sexual behavior. Specifically, we hypothesize that neighborhood structural disadvantage-as measured by levels of concentrated poverty, residential instability, and aspects of immigrant concentration-and diminished collective efficacy have consequences for the prevalence of early adolescent multiple sexual partnering. Findings from random effects multinomial log…
Seven Years Later: Effects of a Neighborhood Mobility Program on Poor Black and Latino Adults' Well-being
This study explored program effects on adults' well-being seven years following the implementation of a court-ordered neighborhood mobility program. Low-income black and Latino adults residing in poor, segregated neighborhoods in Yonkers, New York were randomly selected to relocate to publicly funded town-houses in middle-class neighborhoods within the city. Adults who moved (n = 141) and demographically similar adults who were not selected to mo…
Neighborhood Influences on Adolescent Development
Methodological Issues in Studying Adolescent Development in Neighborhood Contexts A Review of Neighborhood Structural Effects on Adolescent Development A Framework for Understanding Potential Pathways of Neighborhood Effects on Adolescent Outcomes Emerging Trends and Unresolved Issues Policy Implications and Future Directions Keywords: neighborhood; community; socioeconomic status; poverty; achievement; mental health; sexual behavior
Family Socioeconomic Status and Consistent Environmental Stimulation in Early Childhood
The transition into school occurs at the intersection of multiple environmental settings. This study applied growth curve modeling to a sample of 1,364 American children, followed from birth through age 6, who had been categorized by their exposure to cognitive stimulation at home and in preschool child care and 1st-grade classrooms. Of special interest was the unique and combined contribution to early learning of these 3 settings. Net of socioec…
Understanding Links Between Punitive Parenting and Adolescent Adjustment: The Relevance of Context and Reciprocal Associations
There is considerable debate regarding the extent to which punitive parenting adversely impacts youth well being. Using an ecological-transactional model of human development, we examined reciprocity and contextual variability in associations between maternal punitive discipline and adolescent adjustment among 1,147 low-income, urban youth followed through adolescence. Longitudinal SEM results indicated that delinquency and depressive symptoms du…
Housing and child development
Psychology (52 works) · Developmental psychology (37 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (34 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (32 works) · Demography (28 works) · Medicine (27 works) · Sociology (26 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (19 works) · Demography (17 works) · Economics (16 works)