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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Neighborhood effects"”.
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Neighborhood Effects Of Physical Interventions To Abandoned Housing
… industrial cities have been dealing with the effects of housing abandonment for many years. Previous studies have collected the best practices and prevailing trends for interventions to vacant and abandoned properties. Theoretical and quantitative evidence suggests that abandoned properties …
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Orthographic and phonological neighborhood effects within a priming context
… were completed investigating orthographic neighborhood size in the context of phonological neighborhood size and priming, at various SOAs. Experiment 1 exhibited that words from larger phonological neighborhoods were processed more quickly than those that are not. Also, targets were …
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Neighborhood Effects as Predictors of Hispanic Young Adult Outcomes
… present thesis explores the implications of neighborhood effects, parent-child relationship, and school attachment upon young adulthood attainment among Hispanic adolescents. By 2060, the U.S. population will consist of nearly 12.8 million Hispanic persons and will constitute nearly a third …
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Neighborhood Effects and Mobility Patterns Among Residents of Chicago's Residential Homeless System
<p>This study explores the effects of location and neighborhood characteristics on the probability that residents in shelters, Interim, and Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) programs in Chicago's homeless system move to market-rate housing or intend to leave their communities in the near future. …
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Diversity and tree neighborhood effects on the growth dynamics of European beech and the stand seed bank in temperate broad-leaved forests of variable tree diversity
Von denjenigen aktuellen Studien, die sich mit dem Effekt der Artendiversität auf ökosystemare Funktionen beschäftigen, setzen sich nur wenige mit langfristigen Veränderungen auseinander. Vor diesem Hintergrund befasse ich mich in meiner Dissertation mit Analysen der Bodensamenbank sowie …
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The Economics of Housing Renovation: Three Empirical Studies
… decisions. The results not only indicate that neighborhood effects are strongly influential, but also suggest that many building and neighborhood characteristics may not, in fact, be determinants of renovation, but, rather, are proxies for spatial neighborhood effects.
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Parenting and child competence: A longitudinal investigation of the moderating influences of ethnicity, family socioeconomic status, and neighborhood quality
… and social development of children, the effects of some parenting behaviors may not be universal. In the present study, child ethnicity, family socioeconomic status, neighborhood quality (i.e., crime and median income), and cumulative risk (i.e., composite of family socioeconomic status …
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Neighborhood risk and protective factors for teenage childbearing and fathering
… capital theory, this study investigates the neighborhood contexts associated with teenage childbearing and fathering for Latino and Black adolescents who resided in Denver public housing for a substantial period of time during their childhood. Specifically, I examine the extent to which …
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Modelling Avian Distributions of the Navarrese Region in Northern Spain with a Geographic Information System
… patterns and to incorporate spatial factors (neighborhood effects) into their analysis.</p> <p>All nine patterns analyzed exhibited a high level of spatial autocorrelation. Accordingly, the basic hypothesis of spatial randomness was rejected in favor of spatial clustering for the sample data. …
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Spatial Econometrics Revisited: A Case Study of Land Values in Roanoke County
… proposition is that mechanical construction of neighborhood effects, or grouping nearby land parcels into neighborhoods, is not always the best way to capture spatial effects. Finally, the third and most important proposition states that by implementing a comprehensive set of individual and …
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Community Characteristics and Trajectories of Adolescent Internalizing and Externalizing Behaviors: The Cumulative Advantage/Disadvantage and Subjective Appraisals of Social Support as Mechanisms
Studies examining neighborhood effects on adolescent outcomes have indicated that adolescents growing up in low-income neighborhoods are at higher risk of developing internalizing and externalizing behaviors. However, knowledge of the long-term effects of neighborhood disadvantages on internalizing …
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Gene flow and population differentiation in two species of goodeid fishes (Cyprinidontiformes: Goodeidae)
… continuity and allele frequency homogeneity. Neighborhood effects (population subdivisions due to behavioral constraints such as homing or low vagility) were proposed as contributing to reductions in gene flow among populations from lakes and streams, but at least in the case of Goodea were …
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Two essays on stress and obesity: household and regional perspectives
… determinant of obesity is stress. Drawing upon neighborhood effects theory and public health theories, the second essay examines the association between regional stress and individual obesity outcomes. This essay uses instrumental variables methods and draws upon the Creative Class regional …
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Essays in Economics of Child Development
… The first chapter investigates how family-school-neighborhood combinations influence human capital accumulation, measured by test score gains. I propose a framework that accounts for family sorting into neighborhoods and schools, as well as potential nonlinear interactions among the three factors. …
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A Multilevel Exploration of Neighborhood Disorder, Family Management and Antisocial Behavior
… dedicated to unpacking the relationship between neighborhood characteristics and youth development. Despite these efforts conclusions have been generally mixed and it is the lack of consensus regarding the importance of community that has in part fueled this dissertation. Much of the research …
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Neighborhood Attachment Among Latinos in Low-Income Communities
<p>Neighborhood attachment, defined as an individual's feelings about their social commitment to a particular community, has been a central focus of studies involving space and place (Smith 1975) and community activism (Guest and Lee 1983, Crenshaw and St. John 1989) in the U.S. Yet despite the …
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Examining the neighborhood effect averaging problem (NEAP) in people’s exposure to mobility-dependent environmental factors: A spatiotemporal modeling approach
The neighborhood effect averaging problem (NEAP) is a major methodological problem that might affect the accuracy of assessments of individual exposure to mobility-dependent environmental factors, such as air/noise pollution, traffic congestion, green/blue spaces, healthy food environments, ethnic …
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The Effects of Family, Neighborhood, and Child Care Contexts on Preschool Children's School Readiness
… was to examine how family socioeconomic risk, neighborhood disadvantage, and child-care quality are associated with children's school readiness. A sample of 420 children from 48 early child-care programs yielded multi-informants' data from an evaluation study of a Quality Rating and Improvement …
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The impact of urban form on older adults : focusing on neighborhood design and baby boomers' local behavior
… travel and social behavior resulting from neighborhood design. The body of the research consists of three interrelated essays: The first essay explores age-restricted neighborhoods that target persons 55 and over, providing agetargeted physical design and social services. This study aims to …
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Neighborhoods and educational opportunity structures: an examination of factors affecting sense of belonging among high school students
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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