How Neighborhood Effects Vary: Childbearing and Fathering among Latino and African American Adolescents.

ABSTRACT: This study examines what neighborhood conditions experienced at age 15 and after are associated with teen childbearing and fathering among Latino and African American youth and whether these neighborhood effects vary by gender and/or ethnicity. Administrative and survey data from a natural experiment are used for a sample of 517 Latino and African American youth whose families were quasi-randomly assigned to public housing operated by the Denver (CO) Housing Authority (DHA). Characteristics of the neighborhood initially assigned by DHA to wait list applicants are utilized as identifying instruments for the neighborhood contexts experienced during adolescence. Cox Proportional Hazards (PH) models reveal that neighborhoods having higher percentages of foreign-born residents but lower levels

SUBMITTER: Lucero JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5872214 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature