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When moving out of high-poverty areas, girls thrive but boys suffer

March 5, 2014 by

A new study finds that girls and boys have very different psychological reactions when families move out of high-poverty neighborhoods.Previous studies have found high rates of emotional problems in youth living in high-poverty neighborhoods, even after controlling for factors that might influence the psychological development of each individual.

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