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Demography (2022) 59 (4): 1275–1298.
Published: 01 August 2022
... ), and collective supervision ( Sampson 2012 )—that are primarily relevant for older children with a more expansive sphere of social interaction. How, then, might spatially concentrated poverty affect cognitive ability during early childhood, when socioeconomic disparities first develop? The importance...
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Demography (1996) 33 (4): 395–412.
Published: 01 November 1996
...Douglas S. Massey Abstract Urbanization, rising income inequality, and increasing class segregation have produced a geographic concentration of affluence and poverty throughout the world, creating a radical change in the geographic basis of human society. As the density of poverty rises...
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Demography (1996) 33 (4): 413–416.
Published: 01 November 1996
...Sheldon Danziger 14 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1996 1996 Poverty Rate Spatial Concentration Poor Neighborhood Social Spending Real Earning References Brooks-Gunn J. , Duncan G.J. , Klebanov P. , & Sealand N. ( 1993 ). Do...
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Demography (2008) 45 (3): 515–535.
Published: 01 August 2008
...William A. V. Clark Abstract For the past decade and a half, a concerted effort has been undertaken to determine whether policy interventions in residential location can solve the problems of inner-city poverty and racial concentration. Studies based on data from the Gautreaux litigation...
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Demography (2008) 45 (1): 31–53.
Published: 01 February 2008
..., single mothers of adolescents living in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty in Cuyahoga (Cleveland), Los Angeles, Miami-Dade, and Philadelphia counties. Analyses control for a broad array of mothers’ characteristics, including their psychological and physical health, experiences with domestic violence...
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Demography (2008) 45 (1): 55–77.
Published: 01 February 2008
... of concentrated poverty than other youths as well as lower levels of collective efficacy than white youths. Variations in neighborhood tolerance of deviance across groups explain little of the arrest disparities, yet tolerance of deviance does influence the frequency with which a crime ultimately ends...
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Demography (2004) 41 (4): 697–720.
Published: 01 November 2004
... difference remained even after we considered a host of micro-level factors. Neighborhood-level concentrated poverty largely explained this residual racial difference. Collective efficacy also independently contributed to the delay of sexual onset. No significant baseline difference in age of sexual...
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Demography (2025) 62 (2): 599–627.
Published: 01 April 2025
... of gentrification. Descriptive analyses of tract-level data from five cities show that neighborhoods with sharper declines in violence became less socioeconomically disadvantaged. Despite continued rising economic inequality, the crime decline has had its greatest impact on concentrated poverty, long seen as one...
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Demography (2020) 57 (6): 2337–2360.
Published: 15 October 2020
... estimates are probably lower bounds. The rise of deep/extreme poverty is concentrated among childless households. Among households with children, the expansion of SNAP benefits has led to declines in deep/extreme poverty. Ultimately, we demonstrate that estimates of deep/extreme poverty depend critically...
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Demography (2007) 44 (3): 539–562.
Published: 01 August 2007
... Sociological Review , 61 , 984 – 98 . 10.2307/2096304 Jargowsky P.A. ( 1997 ). Poverty and Place: Ghettos, Barrios, and the American City . New York : Russell Sage Foundation . Jargowsky P.A. ( 2003 ). Stunning Progress, Hidden Problems: The Dramatic Decline of Concentrated Poverty...
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Demography (2015) 52 (3): 1025–1034.
Published: 20 March 2015
... as the “structural linchpin” of American race relations, and evidence in support of this hypothesis has only grown stronger over time. In the 1980s, Wilson ( 1987 ) pointed to the rising concentration of poverty in black neighborhoods and argued that this condition perpetuated disadvantage among African Americans...
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Demography (2019) 56 (6): 2169–2191.
Published: 11 November 2019
... with acute disadvantage and concentrated poverty for blacks. William Julius Wilson’s ( 1987 ) seminal piece, The Truly Disadvantaged , detailed the concentrated poverty that many blacks encountered in the 1980s. His thesis was that the spatial mismatch between inner-city black populations and emerging...
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Demography (1996) 33 (4): 417–420.
Published: 01 November 1996
... Reality . New York : Russell Sage Foundation . Kasarda J.D. ( 1993 ). Inner-City Concentrated Poverty and Neighborhood Distress: 1970 to 1990 . Housing Policy Debate , 4 , 253 – 302 . Kasarda J.D. ( 1995 ). Industrial Restructuring and the Changing Location of Jobs . In R...
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Demography (2020) 57 (1): 33–60.
Published: 29 January 2020
... experienced poverty also have heightened risks of intermittent employment. We then assess how trajectories are associated with wages later in careers, at ages 45–50. We find significant variation in wages across work trajectories, with steady high employment leading to the highest wages. This wage variation...
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Demography (2013) 50 (4): 1363–1386.
Published: 14 March 2013
...Jere R. Behrman; Susan W. Parker Abstract Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs link public transfers to human capital investment in the hopes of alleviating current poverty and reducing its intergenerational transmission. Whereas nearly all studies of their effects have focused on youth, CCT...
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Demography (2013) 50 (5): 1765–1788.
Published: 30 May 2013
... 1987 , 1996 ). Motivated by Wilson’s ( 1987 , 1996 ) forceful arguments about the impact of spatially concentrated poverty on family formation as well as widespread public concern over high teenage birth rates and the dire economic circumstances that frequently befall young parents and their children...
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Demography (2010) 47 (3): 777–800.
Published: 01 August 2010
...). The situation may be exacerbated in neighborhoods with high residential turnover and concentrated poverty because parents in these neighborhoods may be less involved in schools and improving school quality. Although schools are clearly important, children spend most of childhood outside of school (Downey, von...
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Demography (2000) 37 (4): 449–459.
Published: 01 November 2000
... : University of British Columbia Press . Gottdiener , M. ( 1985 ). The Social Production of Urban Space . Austin : University of Texas Press . Hajnal , Z.L. ( 1995 ). The Nature of Concentrated Urban Poverty in Canada and the United States . Canadian Journal of Sociology , 20 , 497...
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Demography (2014) 51 (3): 777–809.
Published: 30 April 2014
... impact of residence in high-poverty urban areas, in particular, has been notable among public health researchers (Galea and Vlahov 2005 ; Fitzpatrick and LaGory 2011 ), and also among sociologists who study residential areas characterized by urban decay, concentrated poverty, and racial segregation...
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Demography (2016) 53 (1): 139–164.
Published: 18 December 2015
... , P. ( 2005 ). Fixed effects regression methods for longitudinal data using SAS . Cary, NC : SAS Institute . Bishaw , A. ( 2014 ). Changes in areas with concentrated poverty: 2000 to 2010 (American Community Survey Reports). Washington, DC : U.S. Census Bureau . Clark , W...
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