How Neighborhood Disadvantage Reduces Birth Weight
Abstract: In this analysis we connect structural neighborhood conditions to birth outcomes through their intermediate effects on mothers’ perceptions of neighborhood danger and their tendency to abuse substances during pregnancy. We hypothesize that neighborhood poverty and racial/ethnic concentration combine to produce environments that mothers perceive as unsafe, thereby increasing the likelihood of negative coping behaviors (substance abuse). We expect these behaviors, in turn, to produce lower birth weights. Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a survey of a cohort of children born between 1998 and 2000 and their mothers in large cities in the United States, we find little evidence to suggest that neighborhood circumstances have strong, direct effects on birth weight. Living in a neighborhood with more foreigners had a positive effect on birth weight. To the extent that neighborhood conditions influence birth weight, the effect mainly occurs through an associ.... https://www.ijcv.org/index.php/ijcv/article/view/2778
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
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Englisch
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How Neighborhood Disadvantage Reduces Birth Weight ; volume:2 ; number:1 ; day:16 ; month:06 ; year:2008
International journal of conflict and violence ; 2, Heft 1 (16.06.2008)
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Emily Moiduddin
Douglas S. Massey
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10.4119/ijcv-2778
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-2020062210322130480476
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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- Emily Moiduddin
- Douglas S. Massey
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