Moving teenagers out of high-risk neighborhoods: How girls fare better than boys

American Journal of Sociology

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1154-1189

  Clampet Lundquist, Susan ^a   Edin, Kathryn ^b   Kling, Jeffrey R ^c   Duncan, Greg J ^d  

^a SAINT JOSEPH S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Macroeconomic Analysis Division   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MALE; POVERTY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; BALTIMORE; CHICAGO; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POVERTY AREAS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK-TAKING; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 79953664444     PISSN: 00029602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/657352     Document Type: Article

References (69)

1. Anderson, Elijah. 1990. Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
2. Billy, John O. G., Karin L. Brewster, and William R. Grady. 1994. "Contextual Effects on the Sexual Behavior of Adolescent Women." Journal of Marriage and Family 56: 387-404.
3. Billy, John O. G., and David E. Moore. 1992. "A Multilevel Analysis of Marital and Nonmarital Fertility in the U.S." Social Forces 70 (4): 977-1011.
4. Blaney, Shannon, Crystal Fuller, Danielle C. Ompad, David Vlahov, and Sandro Galea. 2004. "Neighborhood Collective Efficacy and Age of Initiation of Hard Drug Use in New York City." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, Washington, D.C., November.
5. Braga, Anthony A., Andrew V. Papachristos, and David Hureau. 2010. "The Concentration and Stability of Gun Violence at Micro Places in Boston, 1980-2008." Journal of Quantitative Criminology 26 (1): 33-53.
6. Brewster, Karin L., John O. G. Billy, and William R. Grady. 1993. "Social Context and Adolescent Behavior: The Impact of Community on the Transition to Sexual Activity." Social Forces 71:713-40.
7. Briggs, Xavier de Souza, Susan J. Popkin, and John Goering. 2010. Moving to Opportunity: The Story of an American Experiment to Fight Ghetto Poverty. New York: Oxford University Press.
8. Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne, Greg J. Duncan, Pamela K. Klebanov, and Naomi Sealand. 1993. "Do Neighborhoods Influence Child and Adolescent Development?" American Journal of Sociology 99:353-95.
9. Browning, Christoper R., Tama Leventhal, and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn. 2004. "Neighborhood Context and Racial Differences in Early Adolescent Sexual Activity." Demography 41 (4): 697-720.
10. Burton, Linda M., and Robin L. Jarrett. 2000. "In the Mix, yet on the Margins: The Place of Families in Urban Neighborhood and Child Development Research." Journal of Marriage and Family 62 (4): 1114-35.
11. Cagney, Kathleen A., and Christopher R. Browning. 2004. "Exploring Neighborhood-Level Variation in Asthma and Other Respiratory Diseases: The Contribution of Neighborhood Social Context." Journal of General Internal Medicine 19 (3): 229-236.
12. Carter, Prudence L. 2003. "'Black' Cultural Capital, Status Positioning, and Schooling Conflicts for Low-Income African American Youth." Social Problems 50 (1): 136-155.
13. Case, Anne C., and Lawrence F. Katz. 1991. "The Company You Keep: The Effects of Family and Neighborhood on Disadvantaged Youths." Working paper no. 3705. National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Mass.
14. Clampet-Lundquist, Susan. 2010. "Teens, Mental Health, and Moving to Opportunity." In Neighborhood and Life Chances, edited by Eugenie Birch, Harriet Newburger, and Susan Wachter. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
15. Clampet-Lundquist, Susan, and Douglas S. Massey. 2008. "Neighborhood Effects on Economic Self-Sufficiency: A Reconsideration of the Moving to Opportunity Experiment." American Journal of Sociology 114 (1): 107-43.
16. Cohen, Deborah A., Thomas A. Farley, and Karen Mason. 2003. "Why Is Poverty Unhealthy? Social and Physical Mediators." Social Science and Medicine 57 (9): 1631-41.
17. Coulton, Claudia J., Jill E. Korbin, Marilyn Su, and Julian Chow. 1995. "Community Level Factors and Child Maltreatment Rates." Child Development 66:1262-76.
18. Coulton, Claudia J., and Shanta Pandey. 1992. "Geographic Concentration of Poverty and Risk to Children in Urban Neighborhoods." American Behavioral Scientist 35: 238-57.
19. Crane, Jonathan. 1991. "The Epidemic Theory of Ghettos and Neighborhood Effects on Dropping Out and Teenage Childbearing." American Journal of Sociology 96: 1226-59.
20. Dance, L. Janelle. 2002. Tough Fronts: The Impact of Street Culture on Schooling. New York: Routledge Palmer.
21. Deluca, Stefanie, Greg J. Duncan, Micere Keels, and Ruby M. Mendenhall. 2010. "Gautreaux Mothers and Their Children: An Update." Housing Policy Debate 20 (1): 7-25.
22. Drake, St. Clair, and Horace R. Cayton. 1945. Black Metropolis. New York: Harcourt, Brace.
23. Duncan, Terry E., Susan C. Duncan, Hayrettin Okut, Lisa A. Strycker, and Hollie Hix-Small. 2003. "A Multilevel Contextual Model of Neighborhood Collective Efficacy." American Journal of Community Psychology 32 (3-4): 245-52.
24. Ellen, Ingrid G., and Margery A. Turner. 1997. "Does Neighborhood Matter? Assessing Recent Evidence." Housing Policy Debate 8 (4): 833-64.
25. Florsheim, Paul, Patrick Tolan, and Deborah Gorman-Smith. 1998. "Family Relationships, Parenting Practices, the Availability of Male Family Members, and the Behavior of Inner-City Boys in Single-Mother and Two-Parent Families." Child Development 69 (5): 1437-47.
26. Goering, John, and Judith Feins. 2003. Choosing a Better Life? Evaluating the Moving to Opportunity Experiment. Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute Press.
27. Goering, John, Judith Feins, and Todd Richardson. 2002. "A Cross-Site Analysis of Initial Moving to Opportunity Demonstration Results." Journal of Housing Research 13 (1): 1-30.
28. Goodman, Elizabeth, Nancy Adler, Ichiro Kawachi, A. Lindsay Frazier, Bin Huang, and Graham Colditz. 2001. "Adolescents' Perceptions of Social Status: Development and Evaluation of a New Indicator." Pediatrics 108 (2): e31.
29. Hannerz, Ulf. 1969. Soulside. New York: Columbia University Press.
30. Harding, David. 2009. "Violence, Older Peers, and the Socialization of Adolescent Boys in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods." American Sociological Review 74 (3): 445-64.
31. Hogan, Dennis P., and Evelyn M. Kitagawa. 1985. "The Impact of Social Status, Family Structure, and Neighborhood on the Fertility of Black Adolescents." American Journal of Sociology 90:825-55.
32. Jencks, Christopher, and Susan Mayer. 1990. "The Social Consequences of Growing Up in a Poor Neighborhood." Pp. 111-86 in Inner-City Poverty in the United States, edited by Laurence E. Lynn Jr. and Michael G. H. McGeary. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.
33. Johnstone, John W. C. 1978. "Social Class, Social Areas, and Delinquency." Sociology and Social Research 63 (1): 49-72.
34. Jones, Nikki. 2009. Between Good and Ghetto: African American Girls and Inner-City Violence. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press.
35. Katz, Lawrence F., Jeffrey R. Kling, and Jeffrey B. Liebman. 2001. "Moving to Opportunity in Boston: Early Results of a Randomized Mobility Experiment." Quarterly Journal of Economics 116 (2): 607-54.
36. Klebanov, Pamela K., Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, and Greg J. Duncan. 1994. "Does Neighborhood and Family Poverty Affect Mothers' Parenting, Mental Health, and Social Support?" Journal of Marriage and Family 56:441-55.
37. Kling, Jeffrey R., Jeffrey B. Liebman, and Lawrence F. Katz. 2007. "Experimental Analysis of Neighborhood Effects." Econometrica 75 (1): 83-119.
38. Kling, Jeffrey R., Jens Ludwig, and Lawrence F. Katz. 2005. "Neighborhood Effects on Crime for Female and Male Youth: Evidence from a Randomized Housing Voucher Experiment." Quarterly Journal of Economics 120 (1): 87-130.
39. Kowaleski-Jones, Lori. 2000. "Staying Out of Trouble: Community Resources and Problem Behavior among High-Risk Adolescents." Journal of Marriage and Family 62 (2): 449-64.
40. Ku, Leighton, Freya L. Sonenstein, and Joseph H. Pleck. 1993. "Neighborhood, Family, and Work: Influences on the Premarital Behaviors of Adolescent Males." Social Forces 72:479-503.
41. Leventhal, Tama, and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn. 2000. "The Neighborhoods They Live In: The Effects of Neighborhood Residence on Child and Adolescent Outcomes." Psychological Bulletin 126 (2): 309-37.
42. Lopez, Nancy. 2003. Hopeful Girls, Troubled Boys: Race and Gender Disparity in Urban Education. New York: Routledge.
43. Ludwig, Jens, and Jeffrey R. Kling. 2007. "Is Crime Contagious?" Journal of Law and Economics 50 (3): 491-518.
44. Ludwig, Jens, Helen F. Ladd, and Greg J. Duncan. 2001. "Urban Poverty and Educational Outcomes." Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs, 147-201.
45. Ludwig, Jens, Jeffrey B. Liebman, Jeffrey R. Kling, Greg J. Duncan, Lawrence F. Katz, Ronald C. Kessler, and Lisa Sanbonmatsu. 2008. "What Can We Learn about Neighborhood Effects from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment?" American Journal of Sociology 114 (1): 144-88.
46. Luttmer, Erzo F. P. 2005. "Neighbors as Negatives: Relative Earnings and Well-Being." Quarterly Journal of Economics 120 (3): 963-1002.
47. Newman, Sandra J., and Ann B. Schnare. 1997. "'And a Suitable Living Environment.': The Failure of Housing Programs to Deliver on Neighborhood Quality." Housing Policy Debate 8 (4): 703-42.
48. Orr, Larry, Judie D. Feins, Robin Jacob, Eric Beecroft, Lisa Sanbonmatsu, Lawrence F. Katz, Jeffrey B. Liebman, and Jeffrey R. Kling. 2003. Moving to Opportunity: Interim Impacts Evaluation. Washington, D.C.: Department of Housing and Urban Development.
49. Park, Robert, Ernest Burgess, and Roderick Mackenzie. 1925. The City. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
50. Pattillo, Mary. 2007. Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
51. Rainwater, Lee. 1970. Behind Ghetto Walls: Black Life in a Federal Slum. Chicago: Aldine.
52. Rubinowitz, Leonard S., and James E. Rosenbaum. 2000. Crossing the Class and Color Lines: From Public Housing to White Suburbia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
53. Sampson, Robert J., and W. Byron Groves. 1989. "Community Structure and Crime: Testing Social Disorganization Theory." American Journal of Sociology 94 (4): 774-802.
54. Sampson, Robert J., Jeffrey D. Morenoff, and Thomas Gannon-Rowley. 2002. "Assessing 'Neighborhood Effects': Social Processes and New Directions in Research." Annual Review of Sociology 28:443-78.
55. Sampson, Robert J., Stephen W. Raudenbush, and Felton Earls. 1997. "Neighborhoods and Violent Crime: A Multilevel Study of Collective Efficacy." Science 277 (August 15): 918-24.
56. Shroder, Mark. 2002. "Locational Constraint, Housing Counseling, and Successful Lease-up in a Randomized Housing Voucher Experiment." Journal of Urban Economics 51:315-38.
57. Singh-Manoux, Archana, Nancy Adler, and Michael Marmot. 2003. "Subjective Social Status: Its Determinants and Its Association with Measures of Ill-Health in the Whitehall II Study." Social Science and Medicine 56:1321-33.
58. Snell, Emily K. 2010. "Shaping Nurture: Evocative Effects of Children on Their Environments." Ph.D. dissertation. Northwestern University.
59. Sobel, Michael E. 2006. "Spatial Concentration and Social Stratification: Does the Clustering of Disadvantage 'Beget' Bad Outcomes?" Pp. 204-29 in Poverty Traps, edited by Samuel Bowles, Steven N. Durlauf, and Karla Hoff. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
60. Suttles, Gerald D. 1968. The Social Order of the Slum: Ethnicity and Territory in the Inner City. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
61. Swidler, Ann. 1986. "Culture in Action: Symbols and Strategies." American Sociological Review 51:273-86.
62. Taylor, Ronald D., Robin Casten, and Susanne M. Flickinger. 1993. "Influence of Kinship Social Support on the Parenting Experiences and Psychosocial Adjustment of African-American Adolescents." Developmental Psychology 29 (2): 382-88.
63. Taylor, Ronald D., and Debra Roberts. 1995. "Kinship Support and Maternal and Adolescent Well-Being in Economically Disadvantaged African-American Families." Child Development 66 (6): 1585-97.
64. Turley, Ruth N. L. 2002. "Is Relative Deprivation Beneficial? The Effects of Richer and Poorer Neighbors on Children's Outcomes." Journal of Community Psychology 30 (6): 671-86.
65. Votruba, Mark E., and Jeffrey R. Kling. 2009. "Effects of Neighborhood Characteristics on the Mortality of Black Male Youth: Evidence from Gautreaux." Social Science and Medicine 68 (5): 814-23.
66. Wikstrom, Per-Olaf H., and Rolf Loeber. 2000. "Do Disadvantaged Neighborhoods Cause Well-Adjusted Children to Become Adolescent Delinquents? A Study of Male Juvenile Serious Offending, Individual Risk and Protective Factors, and Neighborhood Context." Criminology 38 (4): 1109-42.
67. Wilson, William Julius. 1987. The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
68. Young, Alfred A., 1999. "The (Non)Accumulation of Capital: Explicating the Relationship of Structure and Agency in the Lives of Poor Black Men." Sociological Theory 17 (2): 201-27.
69. Zorbaugh, Harvey. 1929. Gold Coast and the Slum. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.