How Neighborhood Effects Vary: Childbearing and Fathering among Latino and African American Adolescents

How Neighborhood Effects Vary: Childbearing and Fathering among Latino and African American Adolescents

This study examines what neighborhood conditions experienced at age 15 and after are associated with teen childbearing and fathering among Latino and African American youth and whether these neighborhood effects vary by gender and/or ethnicity. Administrative and survey data from a natural experiment are used for a sample of 517 Latino and African American youth whose families were quasi-random...

Neighborhood risk and protective factors for teenage childbearing and fathering

NEIGHBORHOOD RISK AND PROTECTIVE FACTORS FOR TEENAGECHILDBEARING AND FATHERING

How Living in the 'Hood Affects Risky Behaviors Among Latino and African American Youth

The relationship between perceptions of neighborhood characteristics and substance use among urban African American adolescents.

Although the neighborhood microsystem is recognized as an important domain for adolescent development, relative to the family and peer contexts, neighborhood factors have been understudied in relation to adolescent substance abuse. In addition, recent research suggests that risk factors for adolescent substance use may differ for African Americans when compared to Caucasian youth. This study in...

The associations of perceived neighborhood disorder and physical activity with obesity among African American adolescents

BACKGROUND According to recent research studies, the built and socioeconomic contexts of neighborhoods are associated with African American adolescents' participation in physical activity and obesity status. However, few research efforts have been devoted to understand how African American adolescents' perceptions of their neighborhood environments may affect physical activity behaviors and obe...