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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"cumulative disadvantage"”.
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Cumulative Disadvantage, Poverty, And The Role Of Community Capitals: A Spatial Analysis Of Uneven Development In The Multi-State Delta Region
… agency, even in the face of accumulated disadvantage. This study takes a spatially-oriented approach to sociology to evaluate household income and family poverty when accounting for geographical, historical, and locally-modifiable characteristics. By analyzing publicly available secondary …
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I’M COMING UP ON THE ROUGH SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN: RACISM, RACIAL IDENTITY, SOCIAL JUSTICE AND THE HYPOTHESIS OF DIMINISHING RETURNS IN HEALTH DISPARITY
… racism-induced insufficiencies contribute to cumulative disadvantage that, for Blacks, undermines the magnitude of health gains associated with increasing educational attainment. Referred to as the diminishing return hypothesis, evidence has suggested that increasing levels of educational …
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Cycles of Punishment: Understanding the mechanisms and relationship between school suspensions and juvenile justice and how it varies by student identity
… justice contact. Evidence of critical race, cumulative disadvantage, and labeling theories support a new theory that youth become caught in a “cycle of punishment” rather than a school-to-prison pipeline.
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Early parental loss, socioeconomic stressors, and health in later life: Evidence for gender disparity
<p>Drawing from the stress process model and the cumulative disadvantage theory, this dissertation examined how childhood and later life stressors affected cognitive and subjective health in older adults. Using three main articles, this dissertation investigated (1) the effect of early parental …
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Examining Racial and Ethnic Disparity in Prosecutor’s Bail Requests and Downstream Decision Making
… probabilities, and viewed through the lens of cumulative disadvantage theory, this study demonstrates that the effects of race and ethnicity vary by decision point and charge. Black defendants were found to have higher bail requests and increased likelihood of indictment, but along with Latino …
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The Effects of Socioeconomic Status and Race on Functional Limitations and Self-Reported Health in Old Age
… framing race and SES inequalities within a cumulative advantage lens. Using Hierarchical Linear Modeling techniques to examine data from the Health and Retirement Survey, this study finds that there are racial differences in health through health problems, health insurance, and health care …
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How Justice System Contact, Race, and Gender Intersect: Examining Their Short- and Long-Term Associations with Mental Health, Educational, and Occupational Outcomes
… intersectionality, life-course perspective, and cumulative disadvantage theory to examine the association between criminal justice system contact (JSC) on short- and long-term mental health, educational, and occupational outcomes, exploring how these associations vary by race (Black, Hispanic, …
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The Process of Career Decision-Making in Women: The Decision to Obtain a Nontraditional Occupation
… who are from the working class experience a cumulative disadvantage due to an internalized scheme through which their values are filtered. In addition, the opportunity structure is not as developed for working-class women as it is for women who are considered middle class (based on their …
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An investigation into South Africa’s agricultural trade opportunities and market access alignment within BRICS+
… the study measures comparative advantages and disadvantages in two ways: how often South Africa is ahead of BRICS+ peers (frequency, N1) and how large the positive differences are when it is ahead (cumulative advantage gap). Symmetric measures capture disadvantage (N2 and cumulative …
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Mortality and morbidity patterns in ethnic minorities in England and Wales: evidence from the Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study
… minority groups; Papers VI and VII show that cumulative disadvantage was more common in South Asian and Caribbean migrants and that downward social mobility is associated with a disproportionate impact on limiting long-term illness in migrants; Papers VIII and IX show that the duration of …
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Ageing and Downward Mobility in Later Life: The Negotiation of Life Chances by Vulnerable Older Persons in Singapore
The proportion of persons aged 65 and older in Singapore has almost tripled within the last four decades – rising from about 5 to 7.2 per cent of the population between 1980 to 2000, and currently at almost 14 per cent in 2018. With the total fertility rate remaining low (1.16 in 2017), and life …