Using data from Addhealth, this study investigates the role of neighborhood violence in mediating the effects of neighborhood disadvantage on high school graduation and teenage pregnancy. Results show that neighborhood violence is a strong predictor of both outcomes, net of individual, family, community, and school controls. Neighborhood violence accounts for almost half the conditional associa...

Nearly 50 years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, racial inequality in America remains a persistent empirical regularity. Despite much progress in the 1960s and 1970s, large adverse black-white gaps persist in earnings, employment, family income, health, life expectancy, incarceration, teen pregnancy, educational attainment, and academic achievement. Hispanic-white gaps in economic and educat...

OBJECTIVE This study was designed to determine whether living in a neighborhood in which poverty levels increase across adolescence is associated with heightened levels of allostatic load (AL), a biological composite reflecting cardiometabolic risk. The researchers also sought to determine whether receipt of emotional support could ameliorate the effects of increases in neighborhood poverty on ...

Long-term neurodevelopmental outcome is frequently considered the benchmark in determining the natural sequelae of biologic risks, or the efficacy of various medical interventions in infants born at extremely low birth weight (ELBW; Aylward, 2005). Initially, primary emphasis in outcome studies was placed on major disabilities: moderate/severe intellectual disabilities, sensorineural hearing lo...