When culture is invoked to understand the consequences of growing up in disadvantaged
neighborhoods, the isolation of ghetto residents from mainstream institutions and mainstream …

This article investigates the causal effects of neighborhood on high school dropping out and
teenage pregnancy within a counterfactual framework. It shows that when two groups of …

Theory suggests that neighborhood effects depend not only on where individuals live today,
but also on where they lived in the past. Previous research, however, usually measures …

Estimation of the amount of carbon stored in forests is a key challenge for understanding the
global carbon cycle, one which remote sensing is expected to help address. However, …

Articles face is repeatedly measured along a transect, the result is an outline of both the ground
surface and any vegetation obscuring it. Even in areas with high vegetation cover, where …

Using data from Add Health, this study investigates the role of neighborhood violence in
mediating the effects of neighborhood disadvantage on high school graduation and teenage …

Oscar Lewis (1966) and the report on the Negro family by Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1965).
Lewis argued that sustained poverty generated a set of cultural attitudes, beliefs, values, and …

Effects of disadvantaged neighborhoods on child educational outcomes likely depend on a
family’s economic resources and the timing of neighborhood exposures during the course of …

Exchange of carbon between forests and the atmosphere is a vital component of the global
carbon cycle. Satellite laser altimetry has a unique capability for estimating forest canopy …

The literature on neighborhood effects on schooling theorizes that neighborhood cultural
context is an important mechanism generating such effects. However, explanations that rely on …