Curtis, Katherine Working paper no. 2011-02 Abstract Objective. This study investigates how the Return Migration altered racial inequality in poverty in the American South. Methods. I disaggregate southern poverty into its separate constituents using household data from the IPUMS for 1970 through 2000. Results. The prevalence of poverty declined most dramatically for black southern households and the racial …
Curtis, Katherine, and Jack DeWaard Working paper no. 2011-03 Abstract This research examines how black return migration shaped racial inequality in local-area poverty in the U.S. South. Using census data for 1970 and 2000, we build from inequality and migration theory to investigate the consequences of migration on black-white differences in southern county poverty rates …
Palloni, Alberto, and Jason R. Thomas Working paper no. 2011-09 Abstract Assessing the impact that socioeconomic determinants have on the prevalence of certain chronic conditions reported by respondents in population surveys must confront two problems. The first is that the self-reports could be in error (false positives and false negatives). The second is that those …
Curtis, Katherine, Perla E. Reyes, and Heather O’Connell Working paper no. 2012-06 Abstract This study assesses the social-structural, spatial, and temporal dimensions of aggregate-level poverty in the US Upper Midwest between 1960 and 2000. Central focus is on the links between local-area poverty, industrial structure and racial/ethnic composition, and the spatial and temporal dimensions of …
Kurlaender, Michal, Eric Grodsky, Jessica S. Howell, and Jacob Jackson Working paper no. 2013-11
Wang, Yu and Christine R. Schwartz Working paper no. 2015-01 Abstract Hukou is a key status marker in contemporary China. Urban Hukou status conveys large economic benefits such as preferential access to good schools, prestigious occupations, and state-subsidized welfare benefits. As such, trends in Hukou intermarriage convey important but previously underappreciated information about social mobility …
Gonalons-Pons, Pilar, and Christine R. Schwartz Working paper no. 2015-02 Abstract The growing economic resemblance of spouses has contributed to rising inequality by increasing the number of couples in which there are two high- or two low-earning partners. The dominant explanation for this trend is increased assortative mating. Previous research has primarily relied on cross-sectional …
Wilson, Franklin Working paper no. 2016-01 Abstract This paper analyzes age and cohort changes in the occupational attainment of Blacks and Whites born in successive decades from 1910 to 1979. Occupational attainment is operationalized as “occupational returns to education” and “earnings returns to occupation.” The primary objective is to determine whether the relative occupational attainment …
Palloni, Alberto, Sebastian Daza, Elizabeth Arias, and Ezekiel J. Emanuel Working paper no. 2016-02 Abstract We test the conjecture that intergenerational social mobility is tightly linked to adult mortality even after accounting for income levels, income inequality, and indicators of social capital, health behaviors and levels of access to health services. We use a large dataset …
Raymo, James, Isabel Pike, and Jersey Liang Working paper no. 2017-03 Abstract Existing research on the living arrangements of older Americans is limited in that it pays little attention to geographic proximity to children (proximate residence) and uses data from cross-sectional or short panel surveys. We address these limitations by using data from the Health and …