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Demography (2010) 47 (3): 777–800.
Published: 01 August 2010
...Narayan Sastry; Anne R. Pebley Abstract We examined family and neighborhood sources of socioeconomic inequality in children’s reading and mathematics achievement using data from the 2000–2001 Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey. To describe inequality in achievement scores, we used Gini...
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Demography (2004) 41 (3): 443–464.
Published: 01 August 2004
...Narayan Sastry Abstract I examined trends in socioeconomic inequalities in under-five mortality for the state of São Paulo, Brazil, over a 21-year period from 1970 to 1991, during which much of the mortality transition unfolded. During this time, there was a decline in inequality in under-five...
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Demography (2023) 60 (4): 1059–1088.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Aude Bernard Abstract The widening of socioeconomic inequalities in most developed countries makes it essential to improve understanding of the mechanisms underpinning social reproduction—that is, the transmission of advantage and disadvantage between generations. This article proposes...
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Demography (2015) 52 (6): 1917–1927.
Published: 05 October 2015
... programs succeeded in reducing gender and socioeconomic inequalities in school attainment among a sample of the rural poor in Bangladesh. Multivariate analyses find that targeted stipend programs helped to reduce the gender attainment gap. Females had an increased probability of participating in stipend...
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Demography (2022) 59 (5): 1763–1789.
Published: 01 October 2022
... of collective efficacy and higher levels of racial segregation, violent crime, and—to a less consistent degree—concentrated socioeconomic disadvantage. We additionally considered whether racial inequalities in activity space compositions vary by adolescent age, biological sex, home neighborhood concentrated...
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Demography (2023) 60 (3): 675–705.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Tyson H. Brown; Taylor W. Hargrove; Patricia Homan; Daniel E. Adkins Abstract Racism drives population health inequities by shaping the unequal distribution of key social determinants of health, such as socioeconomic resources and exposure to stressors. Research on interrelationships among race...
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in Racialized Health Inequities: Quantifying Socioeconomic and Stress Pathways Using Moderated Mediation
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Published: 01 June 2023
Fig. 4 Percentage mediation of racial inequities by socioeconomic status and stressors (collectively), using moderated mediation and simple mediation models. Estimates of mediation are based on results from Tables 2 and 3 . Estimates are for the extent of collective mediation for education
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in Racialized Health Inequities: Quantifying Socioeconomic and Stress Pathways Using Moderated Mediation
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Published: 01 June 2023
Fig. 5 Percentage mediation of racial inequities by socioeconomic status and stressors (individually), using moderated mediation models. Estimates of mediation are based on results from Tables 2 and 3 . SRH = self-rated health. CBR = cumulative biological risk. FUNC = functional limitations
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Demography (2002) 39 (4): 763–790.
Published: 01 November 2002
..., the analysis shows that racial inequality in the distribution of socioeconomic resources across households and communities explains much of the racial difference in stunting in both countries. Even after these factors are controlled, however, the results indicate that in South Africa, nonwhite children...
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Demography (2021) 58 (3): 1039–1064.
Published: 01 June 2021
... context of each college, this study evaluates the extent of socioeconomic segregation by social context in higher education and its implications for socioeconomic inequality in bachelor's degree attainment. Results confirm that social context is highly consequential for inequality in student outcomes...
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Demography (2018) 55 (5): 1935–1956.
Published: 25 September 2018
... almost disappears after we correct for reporting tendencies. Such large shifts and even reversals of health gradients have not been documented in previous studies on reporting bias in health inequalities. The evidence for South Africa, with its history of racial segregation and socioeconomic inequality...
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Demography (2022) 59 (5): 1631–1654.
Published: 01 October 2022
... the potential contributions of extreme temperatures to the widening of preexisting socioeconomic inequalities. The forecasted increase in extreme climatic events makes the results of this study concerning, especially for low-SES children. Copyright © 2022 The Authors 2022 This is an open access article...
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Demography (2010) 47 (2): 481–502.
Published: 01 May 2010
... to the union. This study highlights the limitations of using single aggregate measures of spousal educational resemblance (such as the correlation coefficient between spouses’ schooling) to capture variation in assortative mating and its relationship with socioeconomic inequality. Demography, Volume 47-Number...
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Demography (2019) 56 (6): 2169–2191.
Published: 11 November 2019
..., the contrasts in black-white socioeconomic inequality between hypersegregated metropolitan areas and those with high segregation largely diminish by the 2012 to 2016 observation. 23 09 2019 11 11 2019 © Population Association of America 2019 2019 Residential segregation Racial inequality...
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Demography (2014) 51 (4): 1225–1249.
Published: 01 July 2014
... shaping calorie expenditure and intake. Finally, we show that in the presence of strong socioeconomic inequalities in BMI, education is likely to have a pronounced impact on healthy BMI for the disadvantaged groups, represented in our framework by females. Table 2 Summary statistics...
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Demography (2018) 55 (6): 2045–2070.
Published: 15 October 2018
... to be more accurately reported than income or wealth, and is also less susceptible to missing data (Hummer and Lariscy 2011 ). One of the general findings in the majority of studies on socioeconomic inequality in mortality in Europe and the United States is that relative differences have increased since...
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Demography (2014) 51 (1): 73–95.
Published: 16 November 2013
... classes. 1 10 2013 16 11 2013 © Population Association of America 2013 2013 Lifespan variation Life disparity Life expectancy Mortality compression Socioeconomic inequality Socioeconomic differences in mortality exist in every modern population where they have been...
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Demography (2022) 59 (6): 2025–2051.
Published: 01 December 2022
... the pandemic shaped birth outcomes and socioeconomic disparities in these consequences. Analysis of more than 3.5 million birth records in California with universal information on COVID infection among persons giving birth at the time of delivery reveals deep inequalities in infection by education, race...
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Demography (2011) 48 (4): 1377–1400.
Published: 01 November 2011
... provide an insightful starting point for understanding the role that institutions (such as national health care systems) might play in reducing inequalities in health—and by extension, survival—between different socioeconomic groups. The international comparisons that do exist (e.g., Huisman et al...
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Demography (2020) 57 (2): 675–703.
Published: 26 March 2020
... of inequality in children’s lives: the neighborhood. We integrate multiple literatures to develop hypotheses on parental skill-based sorting by neighborhood socioeconomic status and public school test scores, which we test using an original follow-up of the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey. These data...
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