Robust literatures separately estimate school effects and neighborhood effects on children's
educational, economic, health, and other outcomes that measure well-being. A growing …

Background Stress and compromised parenting often place children at risk of abuse and
neglect. Child maltreatment has generally been viewed as a highly individualistic problem …

Past research shows that income segregation between neighborhoods increased over the
past several decades. In this article, I reexamine income segregation from 1990 to 2010 in …

School and neighborhood segregation are intertwined in complex ways. Schools reflect
segregated neighborhoods, and school considerations reinforce neighborhood segregation …

Over the next generation or two, America's older, largely white population will increasingly
be replaced by today's disproportionately poor minority children. All future growth will come …

Neighborhoods are critical contexts for children's well-being, but differences in
neighborhood inequality among children and adults are understudied. I document racial …

How do parents weigh police presence and police activity in their assessments of a
neighborhood's suitability for raising children? How do place-bound institutions relate to …

Residential and school segregation have historically mirrored each other, with school
segregation seen as simply reflecting residential patterns given neighborhood-based school …

Households with children have been suggested to play a key role in ethnic residential
segregation. One possible mechanism is that school district boundaries affect their …

Most US school districts draw “attendance boundaries” to define catchment areas that
assign students to schools near their homes, often recapitulating neighborhood …