Does Neighborhood Matter? Assessing Recent Evidence

Housing Policy Debate

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 833-866

  Ellen, Ingrid Gould ^a   Turner, Margery Austin ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b URBAN INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Neighborhood; Policy; Poverty

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000354539     PISSN: 10511482     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10511482.1997.9521280     Document Type: Article

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