Neighborhood poverty and children's exposure to danger: Examining gender differences in impacts of the Moving to Opportunity experiment

Social Science Research

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 788-801

  Zuberi, Anita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Children and youth; Crime; Housing mobility programs; Neighborhood effects; Poverty; Safety; Sibling fixed effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862187131     PISSN: 0049089X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2012.01.005     Document Type: Article

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