Skill-Based Contextual Sorting: How Parental Cognition and Residential Mobility Produce Unequal Environments for Children.
Highly skilled parents deploy distinct strategies to cultivate their children's development, but little is known about how parental cognitive skills interact with metropolitan opportunity structures and residential mobility to shape a major domain of inequality in children's lives: the neighborhood....
| Publicado en: | Demography (Springer Nature) Vol. 57; no. 2; pp. 675 - 704 |
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