Who Are the People in Your Neighborhood? Neighborhood Age Composition and Age Discrimination

Social Psychology Quarterly

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 68-80

  Stokes, Jeffrey E ^a   Moorman, Sara M ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

age composition; age discrimination; ageism; group density; neighborhood contextual effects

Indexed keywords

AGEISM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEIGHBORHOOD; RESIDENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84958684519     PISSN: 01902725     EISSN: 19398999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0190272515626569     Document Type: Article

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