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

Thomas Schofield, Melissa Merrick and Chia-Feng Chen
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Thomas Schofield: Iowa State University
Melissa Merrick: Division of Violence Prevention, Nationa l Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Chia-Feng Chen: Texas A&M University,

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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.

Keywords: social environments; communities; neighborhoods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-09
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