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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
... rural general caste children? We find that SES variables largely explain the height gap for STs, 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...
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Demography (2010) 47 (2): 481–502.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Florencia Torche Abstract Educational assortative mating and economic inequality are likely to be endogenously determined, but very little research exists on their empirical association. Using census data and log-linear and log-multiplicative methods, I compare the patterns of educational...
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Demography (2024) 61 (2): 513–540.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Iñaki Permanyer; Serena Vigezzi Abstract We propose a novel decomposition approach that breaks down the levels and trends of lifespan inequality as the sum of cause-of-death contributions. The suggested method shows whether the levels and changes in lifespan inequality are attributable...
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Demography (2024) 61 (3): 711–735.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Heather A. O'Connell; Katherine J. Curtis; Alex Mikulas; Jack DeWaard; Junho Lee Abstract Despite the persistence of relationships between historical racist violence and contemporary Black–White inequality, research indicates, in broad strokes, that the slavery–inequality relationship in the United...
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in Spatiotemporal Changes in the Slavery–Inequality Relationship: The Diffusion of the Legacy of Slavery
> Demography
Published: 01 June 2024
Fig. 3 Black–White inequality quartiles for concentration in tenant farming in the U.S. South, 1900. Values are shown only for Southern counties in the analytic sample with consistent boundaries throughout the early period (i.e., 1900–1930).
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in Spatiotemporal Changes in the Slavery–Inequality Relationship: The Diffusion of the Legacy of Slavery
> Demography
Published: 01 June 2024
Fig. 4 Black–White inequality quartiles for poverty rates in the U.S. South, 1970. Values are shown only for Southern counties in the analytic sample with consistent boundaries throughout the contemporary period (i.e., 1970–2018).
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in Spatiotemporal Changes in the Slavery–Inequality Relationship: The Diffusion of the Legacy of Slavery
> Demography
Published: 01 June 2024
Fig. 5 Black–White inequality quartiles for poverty rates in the U.S. South, 2014–2018 American Community Survey. Values are shown only for Southern counties in the analytic sample with consistent boundaries throughout the contemporary period (i.e., 1970–2018).
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in Spatiotemporal Changes in the Slavery–Inequality Relationship: The Diffusion of the Legacy of Slavery
> Demography
Published: 01 June 2024
Fig. 7 Spatial patterning of three types of changes in the slavery–inequality relationship, U.S. South
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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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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 (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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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 (2001) 38 (2): 227–251.
Published: 01 May 2001
.... , & Szklo , M. ( 1995 ). Social Inequalities and Atherosclerosis: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study . American Journal of Epidemiology , 141 , 960 – 72 . Dill , B.T. , & Williams , B.B. ( 1992 ). Race, Gender, and Poverty in the Rural South . In C.M. Duncan...
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Demography (2003) 40 (3): 543–568.
Published: 01 August 2003
...William P. Bridges Abstract It is often assumed that occupational segregation by gender is readily interpretable as an index of inequality between men and women in the labor force. Although this view has been challenged, the development and dissemination of analytic tools that could test...
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Demography (2003) 40 (3): 499–519.
Published: 01 August 2003
...John Iceland Abstract After dramatic declines in poverty from 1950 to the early 1970s in the United States, progress stalled. This article examines the association between trends in poverty and income growth, economic inequality, and changes in family structure using three measures of poverty...
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Demography (2001) 38 (3): 363–373.
Published: 01 August 2001
... and long-term immigrants in the absence of recent immigration. I find that immigration over the last three decades can account for a substantial portion of the variation in inequality across the regions. Recent immigration has contributed moderately to national growth in males’ earnings inequality...
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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 (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. 9 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1995 1995 Death Certificate Postsecondary Education Adult Mortality Educational Inequality Educational Difference...
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