Neighborhood Poverty
Author | : Jeanne Brooks-Gunn |
Publisher | : Russell Sage Foundation |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1997-11-06 |
ISBN-10 | : 0871541459 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780871541451 |
Rating | : 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Download or read book Neighborhood Poverty written by Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 1997-11-06 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume I of a two-volume set offering research and analysis from experts in the fields of child development, social psychology, sociology, and economics. Reports on national and city-based empirical evidence concerning the relationship between children and community, looking at how neighborhood poverty's effects vary with race, gender, and age, with parenting techniques and a family's degree of community involvement also serving as mitigating factors. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR