Historical Redlining and Contemporary Racial Disparities in Neighborhood Life Expectancy.
While evidence suggests a durable relationship between redlining and population health, we currently lack an empirical account of how this historical act of racialized violence produced contemporary inequities. In this paper, we use a mediation framework to evaluate how redlining grades influenced l...
| Published in: | Social Forces Vol. 102; no. 1; pp. 1 - 23 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Sep2023
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