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in Still Large, but Narrowing: The Sizable Decline in Racial Neighborhood Inequality in Metropolitan America, 1980–2010
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Published: 18 December 2015
Fig. 5 Lorenz curves showing little difference in the poverty rates and median incomes of the neighborhoods where Hispanics and blacks live
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in Still Large, but Narrowing: The Sizable Decline in Racial Neighborhood Inequality in Metropolitan America, 1980–2010
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Published: 18 December 2015
Fig. 6 Lorenz curves for U.S. metropolitan areas showing black-white and Hispanic-white neighborhood inequality in 2010
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Postcensal estimates of household income distributions
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Demography (1989) 26 (1): 149–159.
Published: 01 February 1989
... and produces reliable postcensal estimates for areas with a wide variety of median income levels and numbers of households. 7 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1989 1989 Income Distribution Median Income Lorenz Curve Lognormal Model Lognormal Probability References...
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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
... in children’s achievement. Neighborhood economic status appears to be strongly associated with children’s skills acquisition. 27 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2010 2010 Concentration Index Mathematics Achievement Lorenz Curve Socioeconomic Inequality Immigrant Concentration...
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Demography (2016) 53 (1): 139–164.
Published: 18 December 2015
...Fig. 5 Lorenz curves showing little difference in the poverty rates and median incomes of the neighborhoods where Hispanics and blacks live ...
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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
... found to date in the migration analyst’s toolkit. 14 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1997 1997 Gini Coefficient Gini Index Lorenz Curve Decennial Census Migration System References Amey R.G. , Fik T.J. , & Mulligan G.F. ( 1992 ). Labor...
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Occupational gender segregation: Index measureiient and econometric modeling
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Demography (1998) 35 (4): 489–496.
Published: 01 November 1998
... , W.R. ( 1986 ). Racial Occupational Inequality, 1940–80: National and Regional Trends . American Sociological Review , 51 , 421 – 29 . 10.2307/2095313 Hutchens , R.M. ( 1991 ). Segregation Curves, Lorenz Curves, and Inequality in the Distribution of People Across Occupations...
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Ranking Age-at-Death Distributions Using Dominance: Robust Evaluation of United States Mortality Trends, 2006–2021
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Demography (2024) 61 (4): 1143–1159.
Published: 01 August 2024
.... An additional assumption that a less unequal distribution is better may be sufficient to obtain a ranking. To determine whether it is, we compare areas under quantile functions instead of their heights. Plotting this area against quantile ranks gives the Generalized Lorenz (GL) curve, which traces...
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Trends in socioeconomic inequalities in mortality in developing countries: The case of child Survival in São Paulo, Brazil*
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Demography (2004) 41 (3): 443–464.
Published: 01 August 2004
... the reference period for indirect estimates of child mortality). The infant mortality rates for 1966 (75.9 per 1,000), 1976 (77.2 per 1,000), and 1987 (33.9 per 1,000) were all 76% 80% of the corresponding under-five mortality rate. My 10. The concentration curve is the bivariate analog of the Lorenz curve...
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Population Redistribution and Changes in the Size-Density Slope
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Demography (1984) 21 (1): 35–40.
Published: 01 February 1984
... popula- tion concentration there are a number of alternatives available. Most have been based on what has variously been re- ferred to as the Lorenz or cost-utility curve (Goodman and Kruskal, 1959), segregation curve (Duncan and Duncan, 1955), concentration curve (Kendall and Stuart, 1963...
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Life table transformations and inequality measures: Some noteworthy formal relationships
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Demography (1987) 24 (4): 615–622.
Published: 01 November 1987
... to derive these values, although it is also quite possible to arrive at them through more traditional ways of computing Gini indexes, such 'as the Lorenz diagram. As a corollary to equation (20), note that since the Gini index is restricted to the interval from 0 to 1, the generalized entropy associated...
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Ever since gompertz
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Demography (1997) 34 (1): 1–15.
Published: 01 February 1997
... J.H. ( 1917 ). On the Influence of Food and Temperature upon the Duration of Life . Journal of Biological Chemistry , 32 , 102 – 21 . Lorenz E. ( 1950 ). Some Biologic Effects of Long-Continued Irradiation . American Journal of Roentgenol Radium Therapy , 63 , 176 – 85...
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Measuring Residential Segregation With the ACS: How the Margin of Error Affects the Dissimilarity Index
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Demography (2017) 54 (1): 285–309.
Published: 19 January 2017
... difference between the Lorenz curve and a horizontal line of evenness. The formula for the D—in this case, for whites and blacks 6 —is as follows: w D b = 100 × 1 2 ∑ w i W − b i B . In general, nonsampling error in the ACS can have effects on measuring...
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The influence of parents’ marital quality on adult children’s attitudes toward marriage and its alternatives: Main and moderating effects
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Demography (2006) 43 (4): 659–672.
Published: 01 November 2006
..., and Better Off Financially . New York : Doubleday . Weinstein , M. , & Thornton , A. ( 1989 ). “Mother-Child Relations and Adolescent Sexual Attitudes and Behavior.” . Demography , 26 , 563 – 77 . 10.2307/2061258 Wickrama , K.A.S. , Lorenz , F.O. , Conger , R.D...
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The 1960s: A decade of progress for blacks?
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Demography (1972) 9 (3): 353–370.
Published: 01 August 1972
... levels and whites at others, delta would equal 100, implying no overlap in the distribution of whites and blacks by income. This index ranges from 0 to 100 and high values indicate racial differen- tiation. The Gini index is a Lorenz curve measure which has been widely used to assess inequalities...
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Immigration and the American century
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Demography (2005) 42 (4): 595–620.
Published: 01 November 2005
... and playwrights of Broadway were the children of immigrants, including George and Ira Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, and Leonard Bernstein (Most 2004). Immigration and the American Century 611 Table 4. Hollywood Directors Who Received Two or More Academy of Motion Picture Arts...
