Much research attention has been devoted to community context and health. Communities are often defined as residential spaces, such as neighborhoods, or as social groupings, such as caste in India. Using data from a group of tea estates in South India, we attempt to address important methodological challenges in the identification of neighborhood effects on child health. We find significant nei...

Using a system of structural equations, this paper empirically examines the relationship of residential neighborhood type to travel behavior, incorporating attitudinal, lifestyle, and demographic variables. Data on these variables were collected from residents of five neighborhoods in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1993 (final N 1⁄4 515), including ‘‘traditional’’ and ‘‘suburban’’ as well as mix...

Soil lead in urban neighborhoods is a known predictor of child blood lead levels. In this paper, we address the question where one ought to concentrate soil sample collection efforts to efficiently predict children at-risk for soil Pb exposure. Two extensive data sets are combined, including 5467 surface soil samples collected from 286 census tracts, and geo-referenced blood Pb data for 55,551 ...

BACKGROUND Preliminary evidence suggests that recreational walking has different environmental determinants than utilitarian walking. However, previous studies are limited in their assessment of environmental exposures and recreational walking and in the applied modeling strategies. Accounting for individual sociodemographic profiles and weather over the walking assessment period, the study exa...

During the last decade, there has been a significant inclusion in obesity prevention studies from individual characteristics to household factors then neighborhood factors. The study of place in the context of early childhood obesity studies has been limited to the food and physical built environment. With the persistent disparities in the prevalence of childhood obesity, and Hispanic minoritie...

Past research suggests that mixed land-uses encourage non-auto commuting; however, the evidence remains sketchy. This paper explores this question by investigating how the presence of retail activities in neighborhoods influences the commuting choices of residents using data from the 1985 American Housing Survey. Having grocery stores and other consumer services within 300 feet of one’s residen...

OBJECTIVE To assess the association between neighborhood-level racial residential segregation and stroke mortality using a spatially derived segregation index. DESIGN Cross-sectional study SETTING Atlanta Metropolitan Statistical Area METHODS The study population consisted of non-Hispanic Black and White residents of the Atlanta Metropolitan Statistical Area during the time period Jan 1, ...

The socioeconomic performance of today's workers depends not only on parental skills, but also on the average skills of the ethnic group in the parents' generation (or ethnic capital). This paper investigates the link between the ethnic externality and ethnic neighborhoods. The evidence indicates that residential segregation and the external effect of ethnicity are linked, partly because ethnic...

We study equilibrium asset market outcomes when there is heterogeneity in information about asset values among both buyers and sellers. We argue that in residential real estate markets a key source of information heterogeneity pertains to hard-toobserve characteristics of the neighborhood that are subsequently capitalized in land prices. Sellers are usually better informed about neighborhood ch...

The classical theory stating that high residential density produces negative social attitudes and undesirable behavior is questioned. Results of a survey undertaken in Baltimore, Maryland, are used to suggest that there are also positive effects of high density and large size and that the perceived effects vary by neighborhood.