Moving on up: Neighborhood effects on children and families

Socioeconomic Status, Parenting, and Child Development

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 209-230

  Leventhal, Tama ^a   Brooks Gunn, Jeanne ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781410607027-18     Document Type: Chapter

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