What's the 'hood got to do with it? Parental perceptions about how neighborhood mechanisms affect their children

Journal of Urban Affairs

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 201-226

  Galster, George C ^a   Santiago, Anna M ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; LOW INCOME HOUSING; MINORITY GROUP; NEIGHBORHOOD; PERCEPTION; SOCIAL IMPACT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

COLORADO; DENVER; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33745397822     PISSN: 07352166     EISSN: 14679906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9906.2006.00289.x     Document Type: Review

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