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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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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 Still Large, but Narrowing: The Sizable Decline in Racial Neighborhood Inequality in Metropolitan America, 1980–2010
> Demography
Published: 18 December 2015
Fig. 1 Narrowing of poverty-based racial neighborhood inequality in the United States, 1980–2010
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Demography (2020) 57 (3): 1117–1143.
Published: 18 June 2020
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Demography (2023) 60 (5): 1387–1413.
Published: 01 October 2023
... ). Sociological theories suggest that income segregation exacerbates inequality and hampers class mobility across generations. Since Park (1915) , sociologists have theorized that distinct social norms and environments emerge from clustering people into neighborhoods. More recently, collective efficacy theory...
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Demography (2023) 60 (4): 965–976.
Published: 01 August 2023
... government programs help reduce poverty among mothers around childbirth, these programs do not protect mothers from falling into poverty after childbirth nor do they reduce the inequities in poverty by race or ethnicity. Our results highlight the need for greater public assistance for mothers with recent...
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Demography (2018) 55 (3): 877–899.
Published: 24 April 2018
...Inhoe Ku; Wonjin Lee; Seoyun Lee; Kyounghoon Han Abstract In this article, we examined what has contributed to the worsening income inequality and poverty between 1996 and 2011 in South Korea. We used a rank-preserving exchange method and a conditional reweighting method to assess the roles...
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Demography (2024) 61 (4): 1161–1185.
Published: 01 August 2024
... child poverty. Even if there was zero single motherhood, (1) the United States would not change from having the fourth-highest child poverty rate, (2) the 41-year trend in child poverty would be very similar, and (3) the extreme racial inequalities in child poverty would not decline. Rather than...
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Demography (2021) 58 (6): 2139–2167.
Published: 01 December 2021
... This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Immigration Immigrant generations Child poverty Inequality Employment Racial and ethnic diversity is steadily increasing in the United States, driven largely by the changing composition...
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Demography (2004) 41 (1): 61–86.
Published: 01 February 2004
... of poverty, in general, were tempered by rising wage inequality, simulations indicated that female-headed families and families that were headed by black persons experienced substantial reductions in poverty in the 1990s largely because of the growth in median wages. An auxiliary time-series analysis...
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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 (2016) 53 (1): 139–164.
Published: 18 December 2015
...Fig. 1 Narrowing of poverty-based racial neighborhood inequality in the United States, 1980–2010 ...
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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. 2 County average trends (solid lines) with standard deviations (dashed lines) in Black–White tenant farming and poverty inequality, U.S. South
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Demography (2013) 50 (2): 359–391.
Published: 26 February 2013
... place upward demographic pressure on future poverty and inequality as today’s disproportionately poor and minority children grow into adult roles. Racial boundaries will be reshaped by the changing meaning of race and ethnicity, shifting patterns of racial segregation in neighborhoods and the workplace...
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Demography (2020) 57 (1): 33–60.
Published: 29 January 2020
... effects with gender, trajectories, and race/ethnicity or poverty status, suggesting that wage inequality by race/ethnicity and poverty does not vary significantly across trajectories. This is in line with a model showing that race, ethnicity, and early-life poverty lead to selection into employment paths...
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Demography (2003) 40 (4): 675–699.
Published: 01 November 2003
..., although decreasingly so, at higher levels of socioeconomic status. To minimize problems with reverse causality, I tested competing hypotheses for observed socioeconomic gradients for infant mortality outcomes. I found no support for the income-inequality hypothesis and negligible support...
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Demography (2017) 54 (5): 1845–1871.
Published: 23 August 2017
... and health on their development, the importance of early skill development for inequality over the life course, and the recent growth of research emphasizing child health as a possible mechanism in the intergenerational transmission of poverty. Using the FFCWS data, we incorporate the time-varying nature...
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Demography (2016) 53 (2): 365–391.
Published: 21 March 2016
... significant inequality in women’s labor force experiences across adulthood. We find two pathways of stable full-time work for women, three pathways of part-time employment, and a pathway of unpaid labor. A majority of women follow one of the two full-time work pathways, while fewer than 10 % follow a pathway...
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Demography (2017) 54 (1): 361–389.
Published: 06 January 2017
.... Taking into account children’s risk of experiencing paternal incarceration, measured by the social contexts in which children are embedded (e.g., father’s residential status, poverty, neighborhood disadvantage) reveals that the consequences—across all outcomes except early juvenile delinquency—are more...
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