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Comparisons of changes over time in per capita health expenditures across racial and ethnic groups
Wang, Junling; Mullins, C. Daniel; Chang, Cyril F.; … - In: International Journal of Public Policy 6 (2010) 3/4, pp. 172-189
The study compared changes over time in health expenditures across race and ethnicity, using data from the Medical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010670278
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Fragile health and fragile wealth: Mortgage strain among African American homeowners
Keene, Danya E.; Lynch, Julia F.; Baker, Amy Castro - In: Social Science & Medicine 118 (2014) C, pp. 119-126
Several recent studies identify illness and disability as contributors to mortgage strain, suggesting that the disproportionate burden of poor health that African Americans experience may be an important source of housing fragility in this population. In order to understand how poor health plays...
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The Occupational Segregation of Black Women in the United States: A Look at its Evolution from 1940 to 2010
Alonso-Villar, Olga; del Río, Coral - Departamento de Economía Aplicada, Facultade de … - 2015
Based on detailed occupation titles and making use of measures that do not require pairwise comparisons among demographic groups, this paper shows that the occupational segregation of Black women declined dramatically in 1940-1980, decreased slightly in 1980-2000, and remained stagnant in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011274452
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Occupational Segregation by Race and Ethnicity in the US: Differences across States
Gradín, Carlos; del Río, Coral; Alonso-Villar, Olga - Departamento de Economía Aplicada, Facultade de … - 2011
occupational segregation by race and ethnicity across the United States. Although the unconditional analysis shows great …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011274506
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Comparing Racial and Immigrant Health Status and Health Care Access in Later Life in Canada and the United States
Prus, Steven G.; Tfaily, Rania; Lin, Zhiqiu - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2010
article explores race and immigrant disparities in health and health care access across the two countries. The study focus was … of race and nativity on health outcomes – health differences between native and foreign-born Whites and non- Whites – is …
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Uncrossing the U.S. Black-White Mortality Crossover: The Role of Cohort Forces in Life Course Mortality Risk
Masters, Ryan - In: Demography 49 (2012) 3, pp. 773-796
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010844597
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Poverty among minorities in the United States: Explaining the racial poverty gap for Blacks and Latinos
Gradin, Carlos - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2008
The two largest minorities in the United States, African Americans and people of Hispanic origin, show official poverty rates that are at least twice as high as those among non-Hispanic Whites. These similarly high poverty rates among minorities are, however, the result of different combinations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413429
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Child health in the United States: Recent trends in racial/ethnic disparities
Mehta, Neil K.; Lee, Hedwig; Ylitalo, Kelly R. - In: Social Science & Medicine 95 (2013) C, pp. 6-15
In the United States, race and ethnicity are considered key social determinants of health because of their enduring … making progress toward reducing racial/ethnic inequalities in health. While race/ethnic disparities in infant and adult … outcomes are well documented, less is known about patterns and trends by race/ethnicity among children. Our objective was to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010702838
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The occupational segregation of Black women in the United States: A look at its evolution from 1940 to 2010
Alonso-Villar, Olga; Rio, Coral del - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2013
Based on harmonized and detailed occupation titles and making use of measures that do not require pair-wise comparisons among demographic groups, this paper shows that the occupational segregation of Black women dramatically declined from 1940 to 1980 (especially in the 1960s and 1970s), it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010711919
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Occupational segregation by race and ethnicity in the US: Differences across states
Gradín, Carlos; Río, Coral del; Alonso-Villar, Olga - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
Using the 2005–2007 American Community Survey, we analyze the occupational segregation of workers by race and ethnicity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008789858