The measurement and meaning of unintended pregnancy

J Santelli, R Rochat, K Hatfield-Timajchy… - Perspectives on sexual …, 2003 - JSTOR
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 …

Multilevel models: methods and substance

TA DiPrete, JD Forristal - Annual review of sociology, 1994 - annualreviews.org
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 …

The social consequences of growing up in a poor neighborhood

C Jencks, SE Mayer - Inner-city poverty in the United States, 1990 - books.google.com
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 …

Does neighborhood matter? Assessing recent evidence

IG Ellen, MA Turner - Housing policy debate, 1997 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

The epidemic theory of ghettos and neighborhood effects on dropping out and teenage childbearing

J Crane - American journal of Sociology, 1991 - journals.uchicago.edu
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 …

Measuring peer group effects: A study of teenage behavior

WN Evans, WE Oates… - Journal of Political …, 1992 - journals.uchicago.edu
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 …

The role of socioeconomic status gradients in explaining differences in US adolescents' health.

E Goodman - American journal of public health, 1999 - ajph.aphapublications.org
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 …

The public health impact of socioeconomic status on adolescent depression and obesity

E Goodman, GB Slap, B Huang - American journal of …, 2003 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. We examined the public health impact of the socioeconomic status (SES)
gradient on adolescents' physical and mental health. Methods. Population attributable risk …

Social contexts and urban adolescent outcomes: The interrelated effects of neighborhoods, families, and peers on African-American youth

BH Rankin, JM Quane - Social Problems, 2002 - academic.oup.com
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 …

Neighborhood poverty and the social isolation of inner-city African American families

BH Rankin, JM Quane - Social forces, 2000 - academic.oup.com
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 …