Neighborhood Effects and Federal Policy
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Description
In this chapter, we reflect on what the social science research included in this volume implies for federal policy. How should Congress react to this new learning about neighborhood effects on children? What direction should policy makers take from this new scholarship? We approach these questions slowly and carefully, because they subsume some very difficult general questions about the relationship between academic scholarship and the domain of public policy, and about the relationship of federal policy to children in prospering, as well as failing, neighborhoods. By making these general questions explicit in the first portion of this chapter, we hope to make it easier to grapple with the specific questions later on.
Source Publication
Neighborhood Poverty: Context and Consequences for Children
Source Editors/Authors
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Greg J. Duncan, J. Lawrence Aber
Publication Date
1997
Volume Number
1: Context and Consequences for Children
Recommended Citation
Lehman, Jeffrey S. and Smeeding, Timothy M., "Neighborhood Effects and Federal Policy" (1997). Faculty Chapters. 1080.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-chapt/1080
