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Title: Persistence of Poverty across Generations: A Comparison of Anglos, Blacks, and Latinos
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Santiago, Anna M. Padilla, Yolanda Chavez |
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Persistence of Poverty across Generations: A Comparison of Anglos, Blacks, and Latinos New England Journal of Public Policy 11,1 (Spring-Summer 1995): 117-146 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: John W. McCormack Institute of Public Affairs Keyword(s): Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); Ethnic Differences; Ethnic Groups; Family Background and Culture; Gender Differences; Minority Groups; Poverty; Public Sector; Racial Differences; Racial Studies; Welfare; Work Experience Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Utilizing data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, examines the impact of children growing up in poverty on the probability of their remaining in poverty during young adulthood. Racial, ethnic, and gender differences in patterns of persistent poverty are examined and predictors of poverty status in young adulthood are identified. The results suggest that women, regardless of their race, ethnicity, or adolescent poverty status, and black men who grew up in poverty, are more likely to be poor as young adults than are Anglo men. Logistic regression analyses reveal that in addition to education and work experience, metropolitan unemployment rates were also significant predictors of poverty status for both men and women. Further, while growing up in a poor family for extended periods of time was associated with the increasing probability of being poor for minority men and Anglo women, other family background variables were insignificant predictors of adult pover ty status in all models. 6 Tables, 2 Appendixes. Adapted from the source document. (Copyright 1996, Sociological Abstracts, Inc., all rights reserved.) |
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Santiago, Anna M. and Yolanda Chavez Padilla. "Persistence of Poverty across Generations: A Comparison of Anglos, Blacks, and Latinos." New England Journal of Public Policy 11,1 (Spring-Summer 1995): 117-146.
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