Objectives Longitudinal studies of the relationship between neighborhood change and changes in crime typically focus exclusively on net level key socio-demographic characteristics. Methods We instead propose a demographic accounting strategy that captures composition change: our measures capture which types people are more likely to leave, stay, or enter neighborhood. use data for 3,325 tracts ...

We discuss constructing non-linear noise reduction operators on binary images using a training set of noiseless images. We extract from the training set a probability distribution over local neighborhoods. Our operator changes pixel values when such a change turns a low probability neighborhood into high probability one. 1 1 Motivation We have developed an operator that modiies a pixel based on...

OBJECTIVE To compare associations between neighborhood deprivation and measures of BMI change among adults with type 2 diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Using data from the Kaiser Permanente Diabetes Study of Northern California (DISTANCE) survey, we estimated the association between neighborhood deprivation and two measures of BMI change over 3 years: 1) a continuous measure and 2) a cat...

This article focuses on neighborhood and geographic change arising with the first "selection" of an independent residential setting: the transition out of the family home. Data from two sources-the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods, and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics-are used to provide complementary analyses of trajectories of change in geographic location and neighborh...

Conventional wisdom suggests that urban revitalization can harm the poor, primarily by raising rents. It has also been argued that urban decline harms the poor by reducing job opportunities, the quality of local public services, and other neighborhood amenities. This seeming contradiction can be explained in a model incorporating moving costs and neighborhood quality change sufficiently large t...

BACKGROUND Social support is frequently linked to positive parenting behavior. Similarly, studies increasingly show a link between neighborhood residential environment and positive parenting behavior. However, less is known about how the residential environment influences parental social support. To address this gap, we examine the relationship between neighborhood concentrated disadvantage and...

Physical inactivity is a major public health concern because it is a determinant of obesity and obesity-related chronic diseases. Few longitudinal studies have examined the association between neighborhood socioeconomic (SES) environment and change in physical activity behaviors. Additionally, few studies have examined this association in immigrant groups or Hispanic subgroups such as Cubans. T...