Neighborhood and Life Chances: How Place Matters in Modern America

List of Abbreviations Preface -Eugenie L. Birch, Harriet B. Newburger, and Susan M. Wachter PART I. PEOPLE AND PLACES: HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND SAFETY Chapter 1. Health and Residential Location -Janet Currie Chapter 2. The Place of Race in Health Disparities: How Family Background and Neighborhood Conditions in Childhood Impact Later-Life Health -Rucker C. Johnson Chapter 3. Educational Interventions: Their Effects on the Achievement of Poor Children -Brian A. Jacob and Jens Ludwig Chapter 4. Before or After the Bell? School Context and Neighborhood Effects on Student Achievement -Paul A. Jargowsky and Mohamed El Komi Chapter 5. Neighborhoods, Social Interactions, and Crime: What Does the Evidence Show? -Steven Raphael and Michael A. Stoll Chapter 6. Daily Activities and Violence in Community Landscapes -Douglas J. Wiebe and Charles C. Branas PART II. GEOGRAPHIES OF OPPORTUNITY Chapter 7. Exploring Changes in Low-Income Neighborhoods in the 1990s -Ingrid Gould Ellen and Katherine O'Regan Chapter 8. Reinventing Older Communities Through Mixed-Income Development: What Are We Learning from Chicago's Public Housing Transformation? -Mark L. Joseph Chapter 9. Reinventing Older Communities: Does Place Matter? -Janet Rothenberg Pack PART III. MOVING PEOPLE OUT OF POVERTY Chapter 10. An Overview of Moving to Opportunity: A Random Assignment Housing Mobility Study in Five U.S. Cities -Lisa A. Gennetian, Lisa Sanbonmatsu, and Jens Ludwig Chapter 11. How Does Leaving High-Poverty Neighborhoods Affect the Employment Prospects of Low-Income Mothers and Youth? Evidence from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment -Xavier de Souza Briggs, Elizabeth Cove, Cynthia Duarte, and Margery Austin Turner Chapter 12. Teens, Mental Health, and Moving to Opportunity -Susan Clampet-Lundquist Chapter 13. Changing the Geography of Opportunity by Helping Poor Households Move Out of Concentrated Poverty: Neighborhood Effects and Policy Design -George Galster PART IV. SEGREGATION: THE POWER OF PLACE Chapter 14. Are Mixed Neighborhoods Always Unstable? Two-Sided and One-Sided Tipping -David Card, Alexandre Mas, and Jesse Rothstein Chapter 15. Preferences for Hispanic Neighborhoods -Fernando Ferreira Chapter 16. Increasing Diversity and the Future of U.S. Housing Segregation -Robert DeFina and Lance Hannon Chapter 17. Understanding Racial Segregation: What Is Known About the Effect of Housing Discrimination? -Stephen L. Ross Contents Notes Bibliography List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments