Neighborhood effects in temporal perspective: The impact of long-term exposure to concentrated disadvantage on high school graduation

American Sociological Review

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 713-736

  Wodtke, Geoffrey T ^a   Harding, David J ^a   Elwert, Felix ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

causality; education; inverse probability of treatment weighting; marginal structural models; neighborhoods

Indexed keywords

CHILD WELFARE; EDUCATION; INCOME; NEIGHBORHOOD;

EID: 80053209113     PISSN: 00031224     EISSN: 19398271     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0003122411420816     Document Type: Article

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