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dc.contributor.authorMoro-Araujo, Alejandro
dc.contributor.authorAlonso Pastor, Luis
dc.contributor.authorLarson, Kent
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-28T15:16:47Z
dc.date.available2024-08-28T15:16:47Z
dc.date.issued2024-07-22
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/156407
dc.description.abstractCommunity centers play a crucial role in urban environments, providing physical and educational services to their surrounding communities, particularly for students. Among the many benefits for students are enhanced academic outcomes, improvement of behavioral problems, and increased school attendance. Such centers are also particularly vital for low-income and racial minority students as they are pivotal in giving them outside-of-school learning opportunities. However, determinants influencing attendance at community centers remain largely unexplored. The novelty of our research comes from using census data, Boston Centers for Youth and Families (BCYF) attendance data, and specific center attributes, to develop human mobility gravitational models that have been used, for the first time, to predict attendance across the BCYF network. Using those models, we simulated the potential effects on general and student attendance by changing center attributes, such as facilities and operating hours. We also researched the impact of changing the walking accessibility to those centers on their respective attendance patterns. After the analysis, we found that the most cost-effective policy to increase BCYF attendance is changing each center’s educational and recreational offerings far beyond any accessibility interventions. Our results provide insights into potential policy changes that could optimize the attendance and reach of BCYF Community Centers to under-served populations.en_US
dc.publisherMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Instituteen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3390/smartcities7040073en_US
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attributionen_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_US
dc.sourceMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Instituteen_US
dc.titleModeling Strategic Interventions to Increase Attendance at Youth Community Centersen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.citationMoro-Araujo, A.; Alonso Pastor, L.; Larson, K. Modeling Strategic Interventions to Increase Attendance at Youth Community Centers. Smart Cities 2024, 7, 1878-1887.en_US
dc.contributor.departmentMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory
dc.relation.journalSmart Citiesen_US
dc.identifier.mitlicensePUBLISHER_CC
dc.eprint.versionFinal published versionen_US
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticleen_US
eprint.statushttp://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerRevieweden_US
dc.date.updated2024-08-28T13:59:40Z
dspace.date.submission2024-08-28T13:59:40Z
mit.journal.volume7en_US
mit.journal.issue4en_US
mit.licensePUBLISHER_CC
mit.metadata.statusAuthority Work and Publication Information Neededen_US


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