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School Climate and the Impact of Neighborhood Crime on Test Scores

Agustina Laurito, Johanna Lacoe, Amy Ellen Schwartz, Patrick Sharkey, Ingrid Gould Ellen
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences March 2019, 5 (2) 141-166; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2019.5.2.08
Agustina Laurito
aAssistant professor in the Department of Public Administration at the University of Illinois Chicago
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Johanna Lacoe
bResearcher at Mathematica Policy Research
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Amy Ellen Schwartz
cDaniel Patrick Moynihan Chair in Public Affairs and professor of economics, public administration, and international affairs in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University
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Patrick Sharkey
dProfessor of sociology at New York University
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Ingrid Gould Ellen
ePaulette Goddard Professor of Urban Policy and Planning in the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University
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