Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 Clifford, Warren E. Crichlow, Peter A. Usinger, Steven P. Cole, LaRue Allen, and Edward Seidman 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 SwansonChapter 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 References ; Index