Welcome to the neighborhood? Long-term impacts of moving to low-poverty neighborhoods on poor children's and adolescents' outcomes

Journal of Research on Adolescence

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 249-284

  Fauth, Rebecca C ^a   Leventhal, Tama ^b   Brooks Gunn, Jeanne ^a  

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

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34250816258     PISSN: 10508392     EISSN: 15327795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-7795.2007.00522.x     Document Type: Article

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