How do youth’s families, schools, neighborhoods, recreational spaces, and peers impact their engagement in risky behavior and their health? Can new technologies help us measure what matters for young people in those settings?
How do housing contexts—including physical qualities, affordability, residential stability, and ownership—influence the cognitive, behavioral, and social development of economically disadvantaged youth?
This study is adding a youth component to the investigators’ Moving to Opportunity (MTO) housing mobility experiment analysis to determine what setting changes and social processes might account for the youth outcomes, particularly for the discrepancy between boys and girls.
When is moving beneficial or detrimental to youth development, and how do changes in family, school and neighborhood contexts condition the effects of moving?
A group of neighborhood researchers will meet to examine the state of knowledge on the effects of neighborhoods on individual and family functioning and the methodological and measurement challenges in studying neighborhood effects.
Do non-experimental methods provide a viable alternative to randomized experiments when trying to assess the effects of neighborhood on youth outcomes?
The William T. Grant Foundation invests in high-quality research focused on reducing inequality in youth outcomes and improving the use of research evidence in decisions that affect young people in the United States.
