PURPOSE: To better understand why adolescents initiate sexual activity at early ages, we
conducted a systematic literature review guided by eight key elements outlined in an …

Donors, practitioners and scholars are increasingly interested in harnessing the potential of
social norms theory to improve adolescents 'sexual and reproductive health outcomes …

Socioeconomic Status, Parenting, and Child Development presents cutting-edge thinking
and research on linkages among socioeconomic status, parenting, and child development …

Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, Religion,
and Education. Hall's vision blended attention to individual and contextual factors, as well as …

Americans remain deeply ambivalent about teenage sexuality. Many presume that such
uneasiness is rooted in religion. But how exactly does religion contribute to the formation of …

In recent years, research and public policy attention has increasingly focused on
understanding whether modifiable aspects of the local food environment–the types and …

When culture is invoked to understand the consequences of growing up in disadvantaged
neighborhoods, the isolation of ghetto residents from mainstream institutions and …

The goal of this chapter is to review methodological, empirical, and theoretical advances in
studying neighborhood contexts and adolescent development. The first section summarizes …

Past research has found negative relationships between neighborhood structural
disadvantage and students' academic outcomes. Comparatively little work has evaluated the …

The aim of this report is partly to introduce in a fairly readable way some of the key ideas of
fairly recent statistical methodology for modelling data on complex social structures …