Improvements in health and well-being caused by moving to areas with less concentrated poverty "is not a magic bullet to eliminate poverty itself," Professor Katz said.
Based on findings from the neighborhood effects literatures, we hypothesize that moving to a neighborhood characterized by concentrated disadvantage and residential instability is associated with increased risk of delinquency.
The U.S. Housing and Urban Development Department designed the landmark Moving to Opportunity (MTO) Experiment for Fair Housing Voucher Program to help low-income households move out of and stay out of concentrated poverty.
From the emergence of the first case in 1987 to an alarming toll of more than 83,000 HIV/AIDS cases, Pakistan has moved to the category of a concentrated epidemic country (1, 2).
A small percentage of doctors in areas with a lot of concentrated wealth might move to operating cash-only practices, but even so, patients would in most cases have more choice than they do now.
A total of 100 μl of concentrated worms was moved to a screw-top 1.5-ml centrifuge tube (VWR) and frozen in liquid nitrogen.
When you're used to working with actors in theatre and you move to film, the requirement is to find a concentrated version of the language you'd use in rehearsal.
The benefits of global free trade are diffuse (cheaper and better goods, available to all) while the losses provoked by globalisation are rather concentrated (just visit a factory town whose plants have moved to China).
Although Hispanics remained concentrated primarily in the Southwest, California, Florida, and New York, new immigrants from Mexico and Central America moved to states such as North Carolina, Georgia, and Iowa, where the Hispanic population was almost nonexistent in 1990.
Born in Pittsburgh, she moved to New York when she was young because her parents wanted to raise their family in a concentrated Jewish community, Mr. Berger said.
