Are point-in-time measures of neighborhood characteristics useful proxies for children's long-run neighborhood environment?

Economics Letters

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 231-237

  Kunz, Jim ^a   Page, Marianne E ^b   Solon, Gary ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Geographic mobility; Measurement error; Neighborhood effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037401966     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1765(02)00324-5     Document Type: Article

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