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The increasing racial disparity in infant mortality: Respiratory distress syndrome and other causes
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Demography (2004) 41 (4): 773–800.
Published: 01 November 2004
...W. Parker Frisbie; Seung-eun Song; Daniel A. Powers; Julie A. Street Abstract Although substantial declines in infant mortality rates have occurred across racial/ethnic groups, there has been a marked increase in relative black-white disparity in the risk of infant death over the past two decades...
View articletitled, The increasing <span class="search-highlight">racial</span> <span class="search-highlight">disparity</span> in infant mortality: Respiratory distress syndrome and other causes
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Do Racial Disparities in Private Transfers Help Explain the Racial Wealth Gap? New Evidence From Longitudinal Data
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Demography (2014) 51 (3): 949–974.
Published: 30 April 2014
...Signe-Mary McKernan; Caroline Ratcliffe; Margaret Simms; Sisi Zhang Abstract How do private transfers differ by race and ethnicity, and do such differences explain the racial and ethnic disparity in wealth? Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, this study examines private transfers by race...
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View articletitled, Do <span class="search-highlight">Racial</span> <span class="search-highlight">Disparities</span> in Private Transfers Help Explain the <span class="search-highlight">Racial</span> Wealth Gap? New Evidence From Longitudinal Data
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Does Multiracial Matter? A Study of Racial Disparities in Self-Rated Health
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Demography (2011) 48 (1): 127–152.
Published: 23 February 2011
...Jenifer L. Bratter; Bridget K. Gorman Abstract How do self-identified multiracial adults fit into documented patterns of racial health disparities? We assess whether the health status of adults who view themselves as multiracial is distinctive from that of adults who maintain a single-race identity...
View articletitled, Does Multiracial Matter? A Study of <span class="search-highlight">Racial</span> <span class="search-highlight">Disparities</span> in Self-Rated Health
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Racial Disparities in Mortality During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in United States Cities
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Demography (2022) 59 (5): 1953–1979.
Published: 01 October 2022
... disparities in United States cities. We provide the most complete account to date of these reduced racial disparities, showing that they were unexpectedly uniform across cities. Linking data from multiple sources, we then examine potential explanations for this finding, including city-level sociodemographic...
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View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Racial</span> <span class="search-highlight">Disparities</span> in Mortality During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in United States Cities
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Tapped Out? Racial Disparities in Extrahousehold Kin Resources and the Loss of Homeownership
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Demography (2020) 57 (5): 1903–1928.
Published: 08 September 2020
...Gregory Sharp; Ellen Whitehead; Matthew Hall Abstract Research shows that extrahousehold kin economic resources contribute to the racial gap in transitions into homeownership, but the extent to which these resources matter for racial disparities in exits from homeownership is less understood. Using...
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View articletitled, Tapped Out? <span class="search-highlight">Racial</span> <span class="search-highlight">Disparities</span> in Extrahousehold Kin Resources and the Loss of Homeownership
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Cumulative Structural Disadvantage and Racial Health Disparities: The Pathways of Childhood Socioeconomic Influence
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Demography (2014) 51 (5): 1729–1753.
Published: 12 September 2014
...Jeremy Pais Abstract Cumulative structural disadvantage theory posits two major sources of endogenous selection in shaping racial health disparities: a race-based version of the theory anticipates a racially distinct selection process, whereas a social class-based version anticipates a racially...
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View articletitled, Cumulative Structural Disadvantage and <span class="search-highlight">Racial</span> Health <span class="search-highlight">Disparities</span>: The Pathways of Childhood Socioeconomic Influence
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Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Lifetime Prevalence of Homelessness in the United States
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Demography (2018) 55 (6): 2119–2128.
Published: 21 September 2018
... a period of homelessness at some point in their lives. We also identify dramatic disparities in lifetime incidence of homelessness by racial and ethnic subgroups. Rates of homelessness were higher for non-Hispanic blacks (16.8 %) or Hispanics of any race (8.1 %) than for non-Hispanic whites (4.8 %; all...
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View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Racial</span> and Ethnic <span class="search-highlight">Disparities</span> in the Lifetime Prevalence of Homelessness in the United States
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Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Excess All-Cause Mortality in the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Demography (2024) 61 (1): 59–85.
Published: 01 February 2024
... ethnoracial disparities suggest that the socioeconomic determinants driving health disparities prior to the pandemic were amplified and expressed in new ways in the pandemic's first year to disproportionately concentrate excess mortality among racial and ethnic minorities. Much of the prior research...
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View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Racial</span> and Ethnic <span class="search-highlight">Disparities</span> in Excess All-Cause Mortality in the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Demography (2023) 60 (5): 1441–1468.
Published: 01 October 2023
... analyze what fractions of racial, ethnic, and nativity disparities in co-impairment are attributable to inequalities in educational attainment. Results reveal that an estimated 56% of women and 41% of men aged 50 will experience co-impairment in their remaining life expectancy. Men experience an earlier...
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View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Racial</span>, Ethnic, Nativity, and Educational <span class="search-highlight">Disparities</span> in Cognitive Impairment and Activity Limitations in the United States, 1998–2016
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Assessing Electronic Health Records for Describing Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities: A Research Note
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Demography (2024) 61 (5): 1325–1338.
Published: 01 October 2024
...Aubrey Limburg; Jordan Young; Timothy S. Carey; Paul Roman Chelminski; Victoria M. Udalova; Barbara Entwisle Abstract The use of data derived from electronic health records (EHRs) to describe racial and ethnic health disparities is increasingly common, but there are challenges. While the number...
View articletitled, Assessing Electronic Health Records for Describing <span class="search-highlight">Racial</span> and Ethnic Health <span class="search-highlight">Disparities</span>: A Research Note
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An investigation of racial and ethnic disparities in birth weight in Chicago neighborhoods
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Demography (2003) 40 (4): 701–725.
Published: 01 November 2003
... must go beyond programs that aim to reduce the level of risk factors among black women to address the causes of differences in the effects of risk factors. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Birth Weight 701 Demography, Volume 40-Number 4, November 2003: 701 725 701 G AN INVESTIGATION OF RACIAL...
View articletitled, An investigation of <span class="search-highlight">racial</span> and ethnic <span class="search-highlight">disparities</span> in birth weight in Chicago neighborhoods
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Reassessing racial and socioeconomic disparities in environmental justice research
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Demography (2006) 43 (2): 383–399.
Published: 01 May 2006
...Paul Mohai; Robin Saha Abstract The number of studies examining racial and socioeconomic disparities in the geographic distribution of environmental hazards and locally unwanted land uses has grown considerably over the past decade. Most studies have found statistically significant racial...
View articletitled, Reassessing <span class="search-highlight">racial</span> and socioeconomic <span class="search-highlight">disparities</span> in environmental justice research
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The neighborhood context of racial and ethnic disparities in arrest
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Demography (2008) 45 (1): 55–77.
Published: 01 February 2008
...David S. Kirk Abstract This study assesses the role of social context in explaining racial and ethnic disparities in arrest, with a focus on how distinct neighborhood contexts in which different racial and ethnic groups reside explain variations in criminal outcomes. To do so, I utilize...
View articletitled, The neighborhood context of <span class="search-highlight">racial</span> and ethnic <span class="search-highlight">disparities</span> in arrest
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Demography (2022) 59 (6): 2079–2107.
Published: 01 December 2022
... utilization among undocumented workers. These findings advance understanding of the impact of “policies of exclusion” on the lives of marginalized groups and underscore the importance of racialized legal status in considering the links between sociopolitical contexts and health and health care disparities...
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View articletitled, State Immigration Policy Contexts and <span class="search-highlight">Racialized</span> Legal Status <span class="search-highlight">Disparities</span> in Health Care Utilization Among U.S. Agricultural Workers
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Demography (2023) 60 (6): 1815–1841.
Published: 01 December 2023
...: PhenoAge, Klemera–Doubal biological age, and homeostatic dysregulation. It also examines the contributions of racial differences in life course socioeconomic and stress exposures and vulnerability to those exposures to Black–White disparities in biological aging. Across the outcomes, Black individuals...
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View articletitled, Patterns and Life Course Determinants of Black–White <span class="search-highlight">Disparities</span> in Biological Age Acceleration: A Decomposition Analysis
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Racial Inequality in Education in Brazil: A Twins Fixed-Effects Approach
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Demography (2016) 53 (4): 1185–1205.
Published: 21 July 2016
...Letícia J. Marteleto; Molly Dondero Abstract Racial disparities in education in Brazil (and elsewhere) are well documented. Because this research typically examines educational variation between individuals in different families, however, it cannot disentangle whether racial differences...
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Demography (2023) 60 (6): 1877–1901.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Ken-Hou Lin; Guillermo Dominguez Abstract Studies have examined the racial disparities in household characteristics, homeownership, and familial transfer as primary drivers of the Black–White wealth gap in the United States. This study assesses the importance of stock-linked assets in generating...
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View articletitled, The Rising Importance of Stock-Linked Assets in the Black–White Wealth Gap
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Published: 01 October 2023
Fig. 2 Racial, ethnic, and nativity disparities in co-impairment expectancy in the empirical versus counterfactual scenario for U.S. women (panel a) and men (panel b), 1998–2016. Source : 1998–2016 Health and Retirement Study.
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Unhealthy and uninsured: Exploring racial differences in health and health insurance coverage using a life table approach
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Demography (2010) 47 (4): 1035–1051.
Published: 01 November 2010
...James B. Kirby; Toshiko Kaneda Abstract Millions of people in the United States do not have health insurance, and wide racial and ethnic disparities exist in coverage. Current research provides a limited description of this problem, focusing on the number or proportion of individuals without...
View articletitled, Unhealthy and uninsured: Exploring <span class="search-highlight">racial</span> differences in health and health insurance coverage using a life table approach
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Cross-State Differences in the Processes Generating Black–White Disparities in Neonatal Mortality
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Demography (2021) 58 (6): 2089–2115.
Published: 01 December 2021
.... This calls attention to inequality in medical care at birth as an importantcontributor to racial disparities in neonatal mortality. I then focus on the role of institutional context as a key predictor of variation in health disparities across states ( Montez, Hayward et al. 2019 ). Because racial...
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View articletitled, Cross-State Differences in the Processes Generating Black–White <span class="search-highlight">Disparities</span> in Neonatal Mortality
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