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Percentage increase in Gini coefficient, p90–p50 ratio, and p50–p10 ratio f...
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Published: 24 August 2020
Fig. 1 Percentage increase in Gini coefficient, p90–p50 ratio, and p50–p10 ratio from 1967 to 2015. Authors’ calculations from CPS ASEC data.
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Published: 07 May 2018
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Measuring spatial focusing in a migration system
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Demography (1997) 34 (2): 251–262.
Published: 01 May 1997
... in the patterns of interregional migration and can help give insight into the population redistributive roles played by specific regions. Perhaps the most common equality index used to measure income distribution is the Gini coefficient, yet it appears almost never to have been applied in migration research...
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Growth in family income inequality, 1970–1990: Industrial restructuring and demographic change
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Demography (2000) 37 (3): 365–380.
Published: 01 August 2000
...Albert Chevan; Randall Stokes Abstract Industrial restructuring and changing population composition frequently have been treated as competing explanations of growing U.S. income inequality. Using the Gini coefficient, we employ a model of conditional change to explore the relative effects of each...
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Family and neighborhood sources of socioeconomic inequality in children’s achievement
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Demography (2010) 47 (3): 777–800.
Published: 01 August 2010
...Narayan Sastry; Anne R. Pebley Abstract We examined family and neighborhood sources of socioeconomic inequality in children’s reading and mathematics achievement using data from the 2000–2001 Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey. To describe inequality in achievement scores, we used Gini...
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Perturbation Analysis of Indices of Lifespan Variability
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Demography (2013) 50 (5): 1615–1640.
Published: 17 September 2013
...Alyson A. van Raalte; Hal Caswell Abstract A number of indices exist to calculate lifespan variation, each with different underlying properties. Here, we present new formulae for the response of seven of these indices to changes in the underlying mortality schedule (life disparity, Gini coefficient...
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The Direct Effect of Taxes and Transfers on Changes in the U.S. Income Distribution, 1967–2015
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Demography (2020) 57 (5): 1833–1851.
Published: 24 August 2020
...Fig. 1 Percentage increase in Gini coefficient, p90–p50 ratio, and p50–p10 ratio from 1967 to 2015. Authors’ calculations from CPS ASEC data. ...
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Demographic Change, Rising Earnings Inequality, and the Distribution of Personal Well-Being, 1959–1989
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Demography (1995) 32 (3): 379–405.
Published: 01 August 1995
... increased inequality because these gains have been concentrated increasingly in families with high incomes 9 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1995 1995 Income Inequality Income Distribution Gini Coefficient Current Population Survey Income Source References Census...
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Immigration and males’ earnings inequality in the regions of the United States
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Demography (2001) 38 (3): 363–373.
Published: 01 August 2001
..., primarily by changing the composition of the population. 14 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2001 2001 Gini Coefficient High School Diploma Recent Immigration Wage Inequality Annual Earning References Altonji , J. , & Card , D. ( 1991 ). The Effects...
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Comment on Pampel and Pillai’s “patterns and determinants of infant mortality in developed nations, 1950–1975”
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Demography (1988) 25 (1): 155–158.
Published: 01 February 1988
...Arline T. Geronimus; Sanders D. Korenman 27 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1988 1988 Infant Mortality Neonatal Mortality Gini Coefficient Fertility Decline Gross National Product References Bloom , D. E. , & Trussell , J. ( 1984 ). What...
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The Role of Family Behaviors in Determining Income Distribution: The Case of South Korea
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Demography (2018) 55 (3): 877–899.
Published: 24 April 2018
... 0.346 –0.006 0.201 (0.62) (0.03) (0.23) (–0.00) (0.13) P90/P50 0.280 0.173 0.016 0.011 0.008 0.071 (0.62) (0.06) (0.04) (0.03) (0.25) P50/P10 0.481 0.281 0.005 0.171 –0.012 0.035 (0.59) (0.01) (0.36) (–0.02) (0.07) Gini Coefficient 0.069 0.041 0.002...
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Inequality in Place: Effects of Exposure to Neighborhood-Level Economic Inequality on Mortality
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Demography (2021) 58 (6): 2041–2063.
Published: 01 December 2021
..., and the fifth quintile corresponds to the most unequal neighborhoods. The ranges of Gini coefficients that fall into each ordinal bin are presented in Table 2 . Table 2 Neighborhood inequality indices Inequality Exposure Quintile Range Quintile First (least unequal) 0.07–0.32...
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The analysis of sex segregation: When is index measurement not index measurement?
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Demography (1998) 35 (4): 505–508.
Published: 01 November 1998
... © Population Association of America 1998 1998 Gini Coefficient Occupational Group Summary Index Gender Segregation Occupational Segregation References Cortesem , C.F. , Frank , R.F. , & Cohen , J. ( 1976 ). Further Considerations on the Methodological Analysis...
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Patterns and determinants of infant mortality in developed nations, 1950–1975
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Demography (1986) 23 (4): 525–542.
Published: 01 November 1986
...Fred C. Pampel, Jr.; Vijayan K. Pillai 12 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1986 1986 Infant Mortality Income Inequality Prenatal Care Neonatal Mortality Gini Coefficient References Anderson , J. G. ( 1973 ). Causal models and social indicators...
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Children and the Elderly: Wealth Inequality Among America’s Dependents
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Demography (2018) 55 (3): 1009–1032.
Published: 07 May 2018
...Fig. 3 Gini coefficients, by household type, 1989–2013 ...
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Demography (2016) 53 (1): 139–164.
Published: 18 December 2015
... inequality in the United States are .51 for pretax income and .39 for post-tax, post-transfer income in 2012 (OECD 2014 ). 5 The Gini coefficient is a function of the area between the group curves and the line of equality (Gini 1912 , 1921 ). Gini coefficients range from 0 to 1 in absolute value...
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Losses of Expected Lifetime in the United States and Other Developed Countries: Methods and Empirical Analyses
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Demography (2011) 48 (1): 211–239.
Published: 26 February 2011
... (4) Equation 4 suggests that the core part of e † is equal to a weighted interindividual difference in age at death. Thus, there is a clear similarity between e † and the numerator of the Gini coefficient, also called the average interindividual difference (AID) in length of life (Moser et...
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Growing Wealth Gaps in Education
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Demography (2018) 55 (3): 1033–1068.
Published: 27 March 2018
... in 10 children of the earlier cohort come from families without any net worth (i.e., zero or negative net worth), but that share rose to 13.7 % of children in the later cohort. The rise in wealth inequality between these two cohorts is also reflected in the Gini coefficient, which increased from 0.72...
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Places of Persistence: Slavery and the Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the United States
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Demography (2018) 55 (4): 1547–1565.
Published: 03 July 2018
.... To evaluate whether historical inequality accounts for the effect of slavery and whether it directly shapes present-day patterns of mobility, I construct a Gini coefficient of the farm size distribution using a procedure similar to that used by Nunn ( 2008b ) with data from the 1860 census. In a subsample...
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Race Matters: Income Shares, Income Inequality, and Income Mobility for All U.S. Races
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Demography (2019) 56 (3): 999–1021.
Published: 03 April 2019
... tracks the annual Gini coefficient for each racial and ethnic group. Three main findings can be taken from this figure. First, within-group inequality varies by race and ethnicity. The most unequal groups (those with the highest Gini coefficients) are whites, Asians, and the Other group. The Hispanic...
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