The Increasing Risk of Poverty across the American Life Course.
This article extends the emerging body of life course research on poverty by empirically identifying the incidence, chronicity, and age pattern of American poverty and how these dimensions have changed during the period 1968-2000. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we construct a series of li...
| Published in: | Demography Vol. 46; no. 4; pp. 717 - 738 |
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Springer Science & Business Media B.V.
November 2009
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