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Article: THE INCREASING RISK OF POVERTY ACROSS THE AMERICAN LIFE COURSE*
- Article from:
- Demography
- Article date:
- November 1, 2009
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CopyrightCopyright Population Association of America Nov 2009. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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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
life tables that estimate the risk of poverty for adults during their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s, and compare these estimates for Americans in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Our empirical results suggest that the risk of acute poverty increased substantially, particularly in the 1990s. This observed increase was especially pronounced for individuals in their 20s, 30s, and 40s; for all age ...