Latino Health Paradoxes: Empirical Evidence, Explanations, Future Research, and Implications
In: Latinas/os in the United States: Changing the Face of América, p. 101-113
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In: Latinas/os in the United States: Changing the Face of América, p. 101-113
In: RSF: the Russell Sage Foundation journal of the social sciences, Volume 8, Issue 5, p. 67-95
ISSN: 2377-8261
In: Urban affairs review, Volume 45, Issue 1, p. 25-65
ISSN: 1552-8332
Researchers measuring racial inequality of neighborhood environment across metropolitan areas have traditionally used segregation measures; yet such measures are limited for incorporating a third axis of information, including neighborhood opportunity. Using Census 2000 tract-level data for the largest U.S. metropolitan areas, the authors introduce the interquartile-range overlap statistic to summarize the substantial separation of entire distributions of neighborhood environments between racial groups. They find that neighborhood poverty distributions for minorities overlap only 27%, compared to the distributions for Whites. Furthermore, the separation of racial groups into neighborhoods of differing poverty rates is strongly correlated with racial residential segregation. The overlap statistic provides a straightforward, policy-relevant metric for monitoring progress toward achieving more equal environments of neighborhood opportunity space.
In: Housing policy debate, Volume 34, Issue 4, p. 508-537
ISSN: 2152-050X
In: Housing policy debate, Volume 27, Issue 3, p. 419-448
ISSN: 2152-050X
In: Social science & medicine, Volume 107, p. 136-144
ISSN: 1873-5347
Objectives. We examined associations between premigration political violence exposure and past-year intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration among immigrant men attending community health centers in Boston.
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In: Housing policy debate, Volume 15, Issue 1, p. 49-98
ISSN: 2152-050X
In: Housing policy debate, Volume 26, Issue 4-5, p. 607-645
ISSN: 2152-050X
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