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Demography (2021) 58 (6): 2041–2063.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Linda Zhao; Philipp Hessel; Juli Simon Thomas; Jason Beckfield Abstract This study contributes to the debate on whether income inequality is harmful for health by addressing several analytical weaknesses of previous studies. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics in combination with tract-level...
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Demography (2019) 56 (4): 1427–1452.
Published: 15 July 2019
..., but not for SCs and OBCs. For these groups, the remaining height gap is explained by local processes related to social inequality. We use two complementary empirical strategies to arrive at these results. First, we use a reweighting decomposition to quantify the fraction of height disparities that can...
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Demography (2023) 60 (1): 201–226.
Published: 01 February 2023
...Xiaoguang Li; Yao Lu Abstract Extensive research has documented persistent nativity inequality in the U.S. labor market, even among high-skilled immigrants. Yet, this phenomenon has not been sufficiently explained. This study investigates whether different types of education–occupation mismatch...
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Demography (2023) 60 (1): 15–40.
Published: 01 February 2023
... of interrogating long-standing approaches to the analysis of linkages between race, the criminal legal system, and family life and the investigation of racialized systems and social inequality more broadly. To contextualize the analyses discussed later, it is important to consider the ways in which the FamHIS...
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Demography (1995) 32 (3): 379–405.
Published: 01 August 1995
...Lynn A. Karoly; Gary Burtless Abstract This paper uses new methods to determine the sources of the sharp fall and then the steep rise in personal income inequality between 1959 and 1989. The increase in the proportion of single-head families tended to boost inequality over the entire period. Forty...
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Demography (1983) 20 (1): 27–43.
Published: 01 February 1983
...Norman L. Weatherby; Charles B. Nam; Larry W. Isaac Abstract We examine mortality at ages 50 and above in female populations of 38 countries and control for variation in quality of the mortality data. We find that economic development, economic distributional inequality, and basic primary health...
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Demography (2000) 37 (4): 415–430.
Published: 01 November 2000
...Leslie McCall Abstract Most research on earnings inequality has focused on the growing gap between workers of different races and at different education, age, and income levels, but a large portion of the increasing inequality has actually occurred within these groups. This article focuses...
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Demography (1996) 33 (4): 421–425.
Published: 01 November 1996
...Michael Hout; Richard Arum; Kim Voss Abstract Massey spresidential address correctly points to growing economic inequality as one of the pressing issues of our day, but his analysis gives short shrift to the political institutions that underlie the economic trends. We supplement his analysis...
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Demography (1997) 34 (1): 97–114.
Published: 01 February 1997
...Angus S. Deaton; Christina H. Paxson Abstract This is a progress report on ongoing research into the effects of economic and population growth on national saving rates and inequality. The theoretical basis for the investigation is the life cycle model of saving and inequality. We report evidence...
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Demography (1997) 34 (3): 311–330.
Published: 01 August 1997
...Valerie Kincade Oppenheimer; Matthijs Kalmijn; Nelson Lim Abstract Based on data from 1979–1990 NLSY interviews, we investigate the implications of rising economic inequality for young men’s marriage timing. Our approach is to relate marriage formation to the ease or difficulty of the career-entry...
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Demography (1995) 32 (2): 215–229.
Published: 01 May 1995
... between blacks’ and whites’ mortality. We discuss limitations of the data and directions for future research. Demography, Vol. 32, No.2, May 1995 Educational Inequality in Adult Mortality: An Assessment with Death Certificate Data from Michigan* Bruce A. Christenson American Institutes for Research 1791...
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Demography (1987) 24 (4): 615–622.
Published: 01 November 1987
...Ralph Hakkert 12 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1987 1987 Life Table Generalize Entropy Gini Index Inequality Measure Accelerate Failure Time Model References Allison , P. ( 1978 ). Measures of inequality . American Sociological Review , 43...
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Demography (2004) 41 (3): 509–528.
Published: 01 August 2004
... gender inequities before puberty and outside the realm of pregnancy. Reductions in pregnancy-related dropouts complement but do not replace efforts to reduce gender discrimination in schooling. Recent data from Demographic and Health Surveys should make it possible to extend this analysis to other...
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Demography (2004) 41 (3): 585–605.
Published: 01 August 2004
...Lauren J. Krivo; Robert L. Kaufman Abstract In our study, we took a first step toward broadening our understanding of the sources of both housing and wealth inequality by studying differences in housing equity among blacks, Hispanics, Asians, and non-Hispanic whites in the United States. Using data...
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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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Income inequality and self-rated health status: Evidence from the european community household panel
Demography (2009) 46 (4): 805–825.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Vincent Hildebrand; Philippe Van Kerm Abstract We examine the effect of income inequality on individualś self-rated health status in a pooled sample of 11 countries, using longitudinal data from the European Community Household Panel survey. Taking advantage of the longitudinal and cross-national...
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Demography (2006) 43 (3): 421–445.
Published: 01 August 2006
...Molly A. Martin Abstract Using 24 years of data from the March supplements to the Current Population Survey and detailed categories of family structure, including cohabiting unions, I assess the contribution of changes in family structure to the dramatic rise in family income inequality. Between...
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Demography (2008) 45 (1): 1–29.
Published: 01 February 2008
...Robert J. Sampson; Patrick Sharkey Abstract In this paper, we consider neighborhood selection as a social process central to the reproduction of racial inequality in neighborhood attainment. We formulate a multilevel model that decomposes multiple sources of stability and change in longitudinal...
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Demography (1999) 36 (2): 173–184.
Published: 01 May 1999
...Maria Cancian; Deborah Reed Abstract We estimate the extent to which rising family income inequality can be explained by changes in the earnings of married women. We develop a decomposition equation that separates single persons from married couples (decomposition by population group...
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Demography (1999) 36 (1): 77–91.
Published: 01 February 1999
... differences in the link between morbidity and mortality point to the importance of investigating how chronic diseases and disease prevention and treatment are related to active life across the population subgroups. © Population Association of America 1999 1999 RACIAL INEQUALITY IN ACTIVE LIFE AMONG ADULT...
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