Contents
Introduction - Martha A. Gephart and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
Chapter 1. Neighborhoods and Communities as Contexts for Development - Martha A. Gephart
Chapter 2. Development in Context: Implications for Studying Neighborhood Effects - J. Lawrence Aber, Martha A. Gephart, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, and James P. Connell
Chapter 3. Neighborhood Models and Measures - Greg J. Duncan and J. Lawrence Aber
Chapter 4. Neighborhood and Family Influences on the Intellectual and Behavioral Competence of Preschool and Early School-Age Children - P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, Rachel A. Gordon, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, and Pamela K. Klebanov
Chapter 5. Are Neighborhood Effects on Young Children Mediated by Features of the Home Environment? - Pamela K. Klebanov, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, and Rachael A. Gordon
Chapter 6. Neighborhood and Family Factors Predicting Educational Risk and Attainment in African American and White Children and Adolescents - Bonnie L. Halpern-Felsher, James P. Connell, Margaret Beale Spencer, J. Lawrence Aber, Greg J. Duncan, Elizabeth
Chapter 7. How Neighborhoods Affect Educational Outcomes in Middle Childhood and Adolescence: Conceptual Issues and an Empirical Example - James P. Connell and Bonnie L. Halpern-Felsher
Chapter 8. Neighborhood and Family Influences on Young Urban Adolescents' Behavior Problems: A Multisample, Multisite Analysis - Margaret Beale Spencer, Steven P. Cole, Stephanie M. Jones, and Dena Phillips Swanson
Chapter 9. Conceptual Methodological Issues in Estimating Causal Effects of Neighborhoods and Family Conditions on Individual Development - Greg J. Duncan, James P. Connell, and Pamela K. Klebanov
Chapter 10. Neighborhood Effects and Federal Policy - Jeffrey S. Lehman and Timothy M. Smeeding
Chapter 11. Lessons Learned and Future Directions for Research on the Neighborhoods in Which Children Live - Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Greg J. Duncan, Tama Leventhal, and J. Lawrence Aber
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Index