Place Matters
New research from the Connors Institute on how communities impact children's life chances in the United States.
New Connors Institute Research
Many poor and working-class American children face challenges that more-advantaged youths do not, increasing the probability that these different groups of children will have unequal outcomes in adulthood across a variety of measures.
While several of these challenges are associated with characteristics of these children’s families, there is growing evidence of the importance of community influences as well.
A new paper from the Connors Institute focuses on the growing empirical evidence that the communities where poor and working-class children spend their formative years—not just the households they are raised in but where those households are located—also matter for their prospects of success in subsequent stages of their lives.
Check out a brief executive summary of the new paper HERE or—if you want to take a deeper dive—read the entire paper HERE.
If this topic interests you, check out these two extraordinarily interesting websites—OpportunityAtlas.org and SocialCapital.org—which contain information about how advantaged/disadvantaged YOUR childhood neighborhood was!
New Connors Institute Podcast Episodes!
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