Title

Reciprocal Associations between Neighborhood Context and Parent Investments: Selection Effects in Two Longitudinal Samples

Author(s)

Thomas Schofield Thomas Schofield (Iowa State University)

Melissa Merrick Melissa Merrick (Division of Violence Prevention, Nationa l Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Chia-Feng Chen Chia-Feng Chen (Texas A&M University,)

Abstract

The present study addresses the degree to which neighborhood disadvantage and parenting investments are reciprocally linked over time, and the relative degree to which both show indirect effects on child externalizing through each other. Data come from two studies: the first followed families from the child’s birth to age 11 (N= 1,364), the second followed children from birth to age 9 (N=4,898). In both studies, material and emotional parenting investments/resources predicted selection into neighborhoods over time, and neighborhood disadvantage frequently predicted relative change in parenting investments. The prediction to change in child externalizing was larger for parenting investments than it was for neighborhood characteristics in most of the models tested.

Creation Date

2016-09

Section URL ID

Paper Number

WP16-08-FF

URL

https://fragilefamilies.princeton.edu/sites/fragilefamilies/files/wp16-08-ff.pdf

File Function

Jel

R20

Keyword(s)

social environments; communities; neighborhoods

Suppress

false

Series

8