Neighborhood and Life Chances

Edited by Harriet B. Newburger, Eugenie L. Birch, and Susan M. Wachter

Harriet B. Newburger is Community Development Research Advisor for the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. At the University of Pennsylvania, Eugenie L. Birch is Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research and Education and Chair of the Department of City and Regional Planning at the School of Design, and Susan M. Wachter is Richard B. Worley Professor of Financial Management and Professor of Real Estate and Finance at The Wharton School and Professor of City and Regional Planning at the School of Design. Together, Birch and Wachter direct the Penn Institute for Urban Research and are the coeditors of Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina and Growing Greener Cities: Urban Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century, both available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

List of AbbreviationsPreface—Eugenie L. Birch, Harriet B. Newburger, and Susan M. WachterPART I. PEOPLE AND PLACES: HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND SAFETYChapter 1. Health and Residential Location—Janet CurrieChapter 2. The Place of Race in Health Disparities: How Family Background and Neighborhood Conditions in Childhood Impact Later-Life Health—Rucker C. JohnsonChapter 3. Educational Interventions: Their Effects on the Achievement of Poor Children—Brian A. Jacob and Jens LudwigChapter 4. Before or After the Bell? School Context and Neighborhood Effects on Student Achievement—Paul A. Jargowsky and Mohamed El KomiChapter 5. Neighborhoods, Social Interactions, and Crime: What Does the Evidence Show?—Steven Raphael and Michael A. StollChapter 6. Daily Activities and Violence in Community Landscapes—Douglas J. Wiebe and Charles C. BranasPART II. GEOGRAPHIES OF OPPORTUNITYChapter 7. Exploring Changes in Low-Income Neighborhoods in the 1990s—Ingrid Gould Ellen and Katherine O'ReganChapter 8. Reinventing Older Communities Through Mixed-Income Development: What Are We Learning from Chicago's Public Housing Transformation?—Mark L. JosephChapter 9. Reinventing Older Communities: Does Place Matter?—Janet Rothenberg PackPART III. MOVING PEOPLE OUT OF POVERTYChapter 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 LudwigChapter 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 TurnerChapter 12. Teens, Mental Health, and Moving to Opportunity—Susan Clampet-LundquistChapter 13. Changing the Geography of Opportunity by Helping Poor Households Move Out of Concentrated Poverty: Neighborhood Effects and Policy Design—George GalsterPART IV. SEGREGATION: THE POWER OF PLACEChapter 14. Are Mixed Neighborhoods Always Unstable? Two-Sided and One-Sided Tipping—David Card, Alexandre Mas, and Jesse RothsteinChapter 15. Preferences for Hispanic Neighborhoods—Fernando FerreiraChapter 16. Increasing Diversity and the Future of U.S. Housing Segregation—Robert DeFina and Lance HannonChapter 17. Understanding Racial Segregation: What Is Known About the Effect of Housing Discrimination?—Stephen L. RossContentsNotesBibliographyList of ContributorsIndexAcknowledgments