Family and neighborhood sources of socioeconomic inequality in children's achievement

Demography

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 777-800

  Sastry, Narayan ^a   Pebley, Anne R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; MATHEMATICS; MIGRATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; READING; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LOS ANGELES; MATHEMATICS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PSYCHOSOCIAL DEPRIVATION; READING; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 77955934388     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: 15337790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/dem.0.0114     Document Type: Article

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