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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
... 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. For the robustness checks, we add variables about local infrastructure...
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Demography (2017) 54 (5): 1603–1626.
Published: 01 August 2017
...Greg J. Duncan; Ariel Kalil; Kathleen M. Ziol-Guest Abstract Income inequality and the achievement test score gap between high- and low-income children increased dramatically in the United States beginning in the 1970s. This article investigates the demographic (family income, mother’s education...
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Demography (2012) 49 (4): 1335–1360.
Published: 21 August 2012
... of America 2012 2012 Migration Remittances Wealth inequality Mexico Scholarly interest in remittances, funds, and goods sent by migrants to their origin families and communities has grown dramatically in recent years. Estimates indicate that annual international remittances to developing...
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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
.... , &amp; Szklo , M. ( 1995 ). Social Inequalities and Atherosclerosis: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study . American Journal of Epidemiology , 141 , 960 – 72 . Dill , B.T. , &amp; 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 (1999) 36 (1): 77–91.
Published: 01 February 1999
... Life Racial Inequality Chronic Health Problem Disability Prevalence References Berkman , L. , Singer , B. , &amp; Manton , K. ( 1989 ). Black/White Differences in Health Status and Mortality Among the Elderly . Demography , 26 , 661 – 78 . 10.2307/2061264...
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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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Demography (2025) 62 (1): 35–60.
Published: 01 February 2025
... the association between caste and climate inequality by studying occupational exposure during the 2019 and 2022 heat waves. We combine high spatiotemporal resolution heat stress information from satellite imagery with a large nationally and regionally representative labor force survey with rich socioeconomic...
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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). More
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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). More
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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). More
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Published: 01 June 2024
Fig. 7 Spatial patterning of three types of changes in the slavery–inequality relationship, U.S. South More
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Published: 01 August 2024
Fig. 1 Trends in lifespan, lifespan inequality, and longevity by sex conditional on survival to age 30 (United States, 1690–1910 cohorts) More
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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...