TY - JOUR
T1 - Moving teenagers out of high-risk neighborhoods
T2 - How girls fare better than boys
AU - Clampet-Lundquist, Susan
AU - Edin, Kathryn
AU - Kling, Jeffrey R.
AU - Duncan, Greg J.
PY - 2011/1
Y1 - 2011/1
N2 - Moving to Opportunity (MTO) offered public housing residents the opportunity to move to low-poverty neighborhoods. Several years later, boys in the experimental group fared no better on measures of risk behavior than their control group counterparts, whereas girls in the experimental group engaged in lower-risk behavior than control group girls. The authors explore these differences by analyzing data from in-depth interviews conducted with 86 teens in Baltimore and Chicago. They find that daily routines, fitting in with neighborhood norms, neighborhood navigation strategies, interactions with peers, friendship making, and distance from father figures may contribute to how girls who moved via MTO benefited more than boys.
AB - Moving to Opportunity (MTO) offered public housing residents the opportunity to move to low-poverty neighborhoods. Several years later, boys in the experimental group fared no better on measures of risk behavior than their control group counterparts, whereas girls in the experimental group engaged in lower-risk behavior than control group girls. The authors explore these differences by analyzing data from in-depth interviews conducted with 86 teens in Baltimore and Chicago. They find that daily routines, fitting in with neighborhood norms, neighborhood navigation strategies, interactions with peers, friendship making, and distance from father figures may contribute to how girls who moved via MTO benefited more than boys.
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U2 - 10.1086/657352
DO - 10.1086/657352
M3 - Article
C2 - 21648249
AN - SCOPUS:79953664444
SN - 0002-9602
VL - 116
SP - 1154
EP - 1189
JO - American Journal of Sociology
JF - American Journal of Sociology
IS - 4
ER -