Bruce Rankin

TL;DR: In this article, a conceptual framework for studying emerging neighborhood effects on individual development is presented, identifying specific mechanisms and processes by which neighborhood disadvantage influences adolescent developmental outcomes, and using path analyses, the authors test the hypothesis that these organizational and cultural features of neighborhoods mediate the effects of ecological disadvantage on adolescent development and behavior.

TL;DR: This article used multilevel data to assess how three interrelated contexts-family, peer group, and neighborhood-influence the social functioning of urban African-American adolescent youth, a group believed to be especially at risk due to high rates of exposure to contextual disadvantage and its associated ills.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the effects of growing up in a bad neighborhood on the development of youth in the United States and found that family influences and neighborhood organization and culture were the most important factors for successful youth development.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of macrostructure, family resources, and cultural attitudes and practices on primary and post-primary education attainment of Turkish youths are examined. But the results show that while locality, family resource, and family structure and culture influence the education of both genders, girls' chances of post-secondary schooling are greater if they live in metropolitan areas and in less patriarchal families.

TL;DR: The authors applied the family stress model to the case of Turkey in the wake of the 2001 economic crisis, using structural equation modeling and a nationally representative urban sample of 711 married women and 490 married men, tested whether economic hardship and the associated family economic strain on families resulted in greater marital problems.