Social capital and neighborhood poverty: Toward an ecologically grounded model of neighborhood effects

Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment

Volumn 16, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 123-147

  Osterling, Kathy Lemon ^a  

^a SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Neighborhood effects; Poverty; Social capital; Social networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 42649105097     PISSN: 10911359     EISSN: 15403556     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J137v16n01_09     Document Type: Article

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