Neighborhood disadvantage and telomere length: Results from the fragile families study

RSF

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 28-42

  Massey, Douglas S ^a   Wagner, Brandon ^a,b   Donnelly, Louis ^a   McLanahan, Sara ^a   Brooks Gunn, Jeanne ^a,c   Garfinkel, Irwin ^c   Mitchell, Colter ^a   Notterman, Daniel A ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Concentrated poverty; Neighborhood disadvantage; Segregation; Telomere

Indexed keywords

EID: 85056816815     PISSN: 23778253     EISSN: 23778261     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7758/rsf.2018.4.4.02     Document Type: Article

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