The concept of unintended pregnancy has been essential to demographers in seeking to
understand fertility, to public health practitioners in preventing unwanted childbearing and to …

This paper reviews recent developments in the application of multilevel models to
substantive problems in sociology. There is no single multilevel model in sociology, but …

Children from affluent schools know more, stay in school longer, and end up with better jobs
than children from schools that enroll mostly poor children. Children who live in affluent …

This article synthesizes findings from a wide range of empirical research into how
neighborhoods affect families and children. It lays out a conceptual framework for …

Why are the social problems of ghettos so bad? This article proposes that ghettos are
communities that have experienced epidemics of social problems. One important implication …

Individuals or households often have some scope for choice of peer groups, whether
through the selection of neighborhood of residence, school, or friends. This study addresses …

OBJECTIVE: This study sought to determine whether socioeconomic status (SES) gradients
exist among US adolescents for self-rated health and for 5 diseases that cause serious …

Objectives. We examined the public health impact of the socioeconomic status (SES)
gradient on adolescents' physical and mental health. Methods. Population attributable risk …

Multilevel data are used to assess how three interrelated contexts-family, peer group, and
neighborhood-influence the social functioning of urban African-American adolescent youth …

Although social isolation has been posited as a critical structural mechanism linking
neighborhood disadvantage to the reduced life chances of inner-city residents, there have …