Where you live matters: visualizing environmental effects on reading attainment

Shero, Jeffrey A.; Erbeli, Florina; Reed, Zoe E.; Haughbrook, Rasheda; Davis, Oliver S. P.; Hart, Sara A.; Taylor, Jeanette E.

doi:10.1111/jcpp.13909

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“…In addition to standard plots of unstandardized heritability estimates at each level of the moderator, we also plotted the results for maternal support by location across the state of Michigan, employing recent modeling innovations (Shero et al, in press). Specifically, we applied a twin-based spatial weighting procedure (Davis et al, 2012; Reed et al, 2022) to compute the prior referenced best-fitting models at a variety of target locations throughout Michigan.…”

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Child effects on positive parenting vary with neighborhood opportunity.

Burt,

Shewark,

Shero

et al. 2024

Developmental Psychology

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Prior theoretical and empirical research has highlighted links between positive parenting and the socioeconomic characteristics of the family's neighborhood, but has yet to illuminate the etiologic origins of this association. One possibility is that the various predictors of parenting outlined by Belsky (1984; e.g., characteristics of the child, characteristics of the parent, and contextual influences) may matter more in some neighborhood contexts than in others. To examine this possibility, we conducted etiologic moderation analyses in a sample of 1,030 families of twins (average age 8 years; 51% male, 49% female; racial composition: 82% White, 10% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Indigenous, and 6% multiracial) from the Twin Study of Behavioral and Emotional Development in Children in the Michigan State University Twin Registry. Neighborhood and parenting were assessed using multiple informants and assessment strategies (neighborhood and family informants, administrative data, and videotaped parent-child interactions). Results pointed to strong evidence of etiologic moderation, such that child effects on positive mothering were prominent in neighborhoods with little opportunity and near zero in neighborhoods with ample opportunity. Such findings not only reframe the magnitude of child effects on the parenting they receive as context-dependent, but also indicate that mothers in impoverished neighborhoods may be more responsive to their children's characteristics than mothers in neighborhoods with ample opportunity. Public Significance StatementOur findings confirm the long-running notion that children are active participants in the parenting they receive. However, we find that child effects on positive parenting are also context-dependent, such that child effects on positive parenting are especially pronounced in underresourced neighborhood contexts.

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confidence: 99%

Child effects on positive parenting vary with neighborhood opportunity.

Burt,

Shewark,

Shero

et al. 2024

Developmental Psychology

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How neighbourhood effects vary by achievement level

Borgen,

Zachrisson

2024

European Sociological Review

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After long-standing calls for research into ‘for whom’ neighbourhood matters, the literature has recently gained traction, focussing on background characteristics such as gender, race, and socioeconomic background. However, there is still scarce and only indirect evidence on whether neighbourhood effects vary by children’s academic ability. In this paper, we combine the Neighbourhood Choice Model with quantile regressions to investigate whether neighbourhood effects vary by children’s academic proneness. Using Norwegian register data, we demonstrate heterogeneity in the effects of neighbourhood deprivation as a function of students’ proneness to academic achievement. Students with the very lowest and highest academic potential are the least affected by neighbourhood disadvantage, while those with below average—but not at the lowest end—are most strongly affected. Moreover, while girls are less affected than boys, and children from less educated and affluent families are more affected by neighbourhood disadvantage than their more privileged peers, the effects of these observed moderators are considerably smaller than the heterogeneity observed as a function of academic proneness. Overall, our use of quantile regressions opens up new venues for understanding ‘for whom’ neighbourhoods matter, with individual-level academic vulnerability and strengths being an influential source of neighbourhood effects variation.

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Where you live matters: visualizing environmental effects on reading attainment

Cited by 2 publications

References 37 publications

Child effects on positive parenting vary with neighborhood opportunity.

Child effects on positive parenting vary with neighborhood opportunity.

How neighbourhood effects vary by achievement level

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