Lead Policy and Academic Performance: Insights from Massachusetts

Reyes, Jessica Wolpaw

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“…Exposure to lead arises in part from drinking water traveling in lead pipes, as well as through dust or chips from lead-based paint within the home and lead deposited in the soil (a remnant from the days of leaded gasoline). Reyes (2012) found that groups of students in Massachusetts with higher blood-lead levels were less likely to pass statewide standardized assessments, providing support for a larger literature arguing that exposure to lead in the environment impairs cognitive development (Lanphear et al 2005).…”

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Where, When, Why, and For Whom Do Residential Contexts Matter? Moving Away from the Dichotomous Understanding of Neighborhood Effects

2014

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The literature on neighborhood effects frequently is evaluated or interpreted in relation to the question, "Do neighborhoods matter?" We argue that this question has had a disproportionate influence on the field and does not align with the complexity of theoretical models of neighborhood effects or empirical findings that have arisen from the literature. In this article, we focus on empirical work that considers how different dimensions of individuals' residential contexts become salient in their lives, how contexts influence individuals' lives over different timeframes, how individuals are affected by social processes operating at different scales, and how residential contexts influence the lives of individuals in heterogeneous ways. In other words, we review research that examines where, when, why, and for whom do residential contexts matter. Using the large literature on neighborhoods and educational and cognitive outcomes as an example, the research we review suggests that any attempt to reduce the literature to a single answer about whether neighborhoods matter is misguided. We call for a more flexible study of context effects in which theory, measurement, and methods are more closely aligned with the specific mechanisms and social processes under study.The Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application aims to inform statisticians and quantitative methodologists, as well as all scientists and users of statistics about major methodological advances and the computational tools that allow for their implementation. It will include developments in the field of statistics, including theoretical statistical underpinnings of new methodology, as well as developments in specific application domains such as biostatistics and bioinformatics, economics, machine learning, psychology, sociology, and aspects of the physical sciences.Complimentary online access to the first volume will be available until January 2015. table of contents:

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Section: Residential Context Effects Across Different Spatial Scales mentioning

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Where, When, Why, and For Whom Do Residential Contexts Matter? Moving Away from the Dichotomous Understanding of Neighborhood Effects

2014

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“…Evens et al (2015) also found a nonlinear relationship between blood lead levels and test scores (see also Miranda et al 2007). Using group-level data on the test scores of Massachusetts schoolchildren from 2001 to 2009, Reyes (2015b) reports that reductions in the share of children with elevated blood lead levels reduced the share of children who scored below satisfactory.…”

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Environmental Inequality: The Social Causes and Consequences of Lead Exposure

2018

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In this article, we review evidence from the social and medical sciences on the causes and effects of lead exposure. We argue that lead exposure is an important subject for sociological analysis because it is socially stratified and has important social consequences-consequences that themselves depend in part on children's social environments. We present a model of environmental inequality over the life course to guide an agenda for future research. We conclude with a call for deeper exchange between urban sociology, environmental sociology, and public health, and for more collaboration between scholars and local communities in the pursuit of independent science for the common good. 263 Annu. Rev. Sociol. 2018.44:263-282. Downloaded from www.annualreviews.org Access provided by University of California -Berkeley on 08/01/18. For personal use only.

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“…Lastly, testing for a short-term effect of place of residence answers recent calls to focus on the mechanisms of neighborhood effects (see Sharkey and Faber 2014). The literature has generally been concerned with long-term outcomes of place of residence and prior research includes in-depth and empirically sophisticated work concerning neighborhoods' impact on individuals' propensity for various activities like criminal behavior (Harding 2010;Sampson and Groves 1989;Sharkey and Sampson 2010), ability to perform on standardized tests (Sampson, Sharkey, and Raudenbush 2008;Schwartz 2010;, and exposure to environmental toxins (Ransom and Pope 1992;Reyes 2015). These questions are, of course, of great importance but they ignore the types of discrimination that might be experienced in day-to-day interactions by residents of disadvantaged places and non-Whites.…”

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Disentangling the Effects of Race and Place in Economic Transactions: Findings from an Online Field Experiment

2019

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Scholarship on discrimination consistently shows that non‐Whites are at a disadvantage in obtaining goods and services relative to Whites. To a lesser extent, recent work has asked whether or not place of residence may also affect individuals’ chances in economic markets. In this study, we use a field experiment in an online market for second‐hand goods to examine transactional opportunities for White, Black, Asian, and Latino residents of both advantaged and disadvantaged neighborhoods. Our results show that sellers prefer transactional partners who live in advantaged neighborhoods to those who live in neighborhoods that are majority non‐White and have higher rates of poverty. This was true across all four racial/ethnic groups, revealing that neighborhood stigma exists independently of racial stigma. We discuss the implications for scholarship on neighborhood effects and we outline how future research using experiments can leverage various types of markets to better specify when characteristics like race trigger discrimination.

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Lead Policy and Academic Performance: Insights from Massachusetts

Cited by 16 publications

References 8 publications

Where, When, Why, and For Whom Do Residential Contexts Matter? Moving Away from the Dichotomous Understanding of Neighborhood Effects

Where, When, Why, and For Whom Do Residential Contexts Matter? Moving Away from the Dichotomous Understanding of Neighborhood Effects

Environmental Inequality: The Social Causes and Consequences of Lead Exposure

Disentangling the Effects of Race and Place in Economic Transactions: Findings from an Online Field Experiment

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