Neighborhood Effects on Children's Achievement: A Review of Recent Research

The Oxford Handbook of Poverty and Child Development

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Sastry, Narayan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic achievement; Children's cognitive skills; Family characteristics; Mathematics and reading assessments; Neighborhood effects; Residential mobility; School effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924565773     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199769100.013.0024     Document Type: Chapter

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