Suburbanization helped fuel neighborhood and school segregation during the twentieth
century, but many American suburbs have dramatically diversified since. How do White …

Research on wealth inequality and accumulation and the data upon which it relies have
expanded substantially in the twenty-first century. Although the field has experienced rapid …

This study foregrounds the metropolitan area as a key driver of contemporary neighborhood
economic change. The recent “Great Divergence” in metros’ economic, social, and political …

Since the early 2000s, educational evaluation research has primarily centered on teachers’,
rather than schools’, contributions to students’ academic outcomes due to concerns that …

New social transformations within and beyond the cities of classic urban studies challenge
prevailing accounts of spatial inequality. This paper pivots from the Rust Belt to the Sunbelt …

Many recent studies have demonstrated that environmental contexts, both social and physical,
have an important impact on child and adolescent neural and behavioral development. …

Developmental science has increasingly scrutinized how environmental hazards influence
child outcomes, but few studies examine how contaminants affect disparities in early skill …

Highly skilled parents deploy distinct strategies to cultivate their children’s development, but
little is known about how parental cognitive skills interact with metropolitan opportunity …

Neighborhood disadvantage erodes residents’ mental and physical health. But whether rapid
reductions in disadvantage spurred by gentrification attenuate or exacerbate these effects …

Parental depression constricts children’s development, but the mechanisms implicated—beyond
daily parenting tactics—remain unknown. Today, parents must evaluate and select …