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Title: Born Poor? Racial Diversity, Inequality, and the American Pipeline

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Publication Year: 2016

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Abstract: We examine racial disparities in infants’ exposure to poverty and other forms of disadvantage at the family and contextual levels. Drawing upon data from the American Community Survey, we address four objectives. First, we provide an empirical benchmark of newborns’ exposure to disadvantage at the family level using the official poverty thresholds, a measure of extreme poverty, and other indicators of disadvantage. Second, we use regression techniques to identify the social, demographic, and economic factors that are associated with newborns’ risk of disadvantage, and then use decomposition to identify factors underlying between-race differences. Third, we identify the share of disadvantaged newborns whose parents utilize the government safety net, and identify social and economic determinants of program (under)utilization. Finally, we examine newborns’ exposure to community-level indicators of disadvantage and identify sources of racial differences in exposure. Our objectives contribute to the emerging research on increasing diversity among America’s children.

Url: https://paa.confex.com/paa/2016/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/5427

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Authors: Thiede, Brian C.; Sanders, Scott R.; Lichter, Daniel T.

Conference Name: PAA 2016

Publisher Location: Washington DC

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Poverty and Welfare, Race and Ethnicity

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