Cumulative Advantage as a Mechanism for Inequality: A Review of Theoretical and Empirical Developments

By Thomas A. DiPrete, Gregory M. Eirich. 2006

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Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Social Sciences & Humanities

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The Matthew effect in childcare use: a matter of policies or preferences? (2018, background): “It is a process of cumulative advantage in which a favourable outcome in one institutional setting becomes a resource producing further gains in other institutional settings (DiPrete and Eirich 2006).”
Leaning Out: How Negative Recruitment Experiences Shape Women’s Decisions to Compete for Executive Roles (2017, background): “…decline, as will the number of women hired for senior roles.16 This dynamic is consistent with sociological models of cumulative disadvantage (DiPrete and Eirich, 2006), which establish that group differences at an early stage of a process are amplified when the outcomes of each stage shape…”
Social Inequality and Health Across the Life Course (2013, background): “The strict extension of this hypothesis specifies that inequality between groups actually increases over time (DiPrete & Eirich, 2006).”
Engaging rational discrimination: exploring reasons for placing regulatory constraints on decision support systems (2010, neutral): “23 Elster (1990). 24 Giddens (1984).”
The “difference between heaven and earth”: Urban–rural disparities in well-being in China (2012, background): “Alternatively, it could be that the principle of cumulative advantage (DiPrete & Eirich, 2006) holds, with urban people better able to exploit new opportunities created by the Economic Reform, resulting in an increased rather than reduced rural–urban gap.”
The Paradox of Publicity (2014, background): “One way in which these effects arise has to do with resource-based cumulative advantage processes whereby high-status actors are able to attract more valued resources, which then enable them to create outputs that are truly of higher quality (Merton, 1968; DiPrete and Eirich, 2006).”
Imprint–environment Fit and Performance (2014, background): “To date, much research on this topic has focused on cumulative advantage, the process whereby small initial differences (typically within a cohort) become magnified over time, such that the initial advantage of one individual over another increases with time (DiPrete and Eirich, 2006).”
Genetics and Social Inquiry (2009, background): “…on cumulative disadvantage and other tools from life course research can further our understanding of how selection into different environments widen initial individual differences, so that genetic and environmental causes may often be mutually reinforcing (Dannefer 2003, DiPrete & Eirich 2006).”
Web-based experiments for the study of collective social dynamics in cultural markets (2009, positive): “…a range of mathematical and simulation models have been proposed that produce (a) highly skewed distributions of outcomes (Barabási & Albert, 1999; DiPrete & Eirich, 2006; Simon, 1955; de Solla Price, 1976; Yule, 1925); and (b) unpredictability due to path dependence effects in which initially…”