Inequality among American Families with Children, 1975 to 2005

By Bruce Western, Deirdre Bloome, Christine Percheski. 2008

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Cross-national Differences in Educational Achievement Inequality (2011, methodology): “Like studies of income inequality that use individuals’ incomes to estimate group-level inequality, this study uses students’ test scores to measure group-level inequality (see Western, Bloome, and Percheski 2008 for a study of group-level income inequality using variance function regressions).”
How Network Externalities Can Exacerbate Intergroup Inequality1 (2011, background): “Western, Bloome, and Percheski (2008) explored the impact of family structure and homogamy on income inequality.”
Income Inequality and Income Segregation1 (2011, background): “Sociologists have investigated factors relating to changes in family structure, marital homogamy, and female labor force participation (Gottschalk and Danziger 2005; Schwartz and Mare 2005; Western, Bloome, and Percheski 2008).”
Educational Assortative Mating and Household Income Inequality (2019, background): “Some studies decompose the inequality in household income by income sources and subgroups (see e.g. Karoly and Burtless, 1995; Cancian and Reed, 1998; Aslaksen et al., 2005; Western et al., 2008; Breen and Salazar, 2011).”
Educational Assortative Mating and Earnings Inequality in the United States1 (2011, background): “Western, Bloome, and Percheski (2008) summarize research on the effect of changes in family structure on U.S. inequality: “Decomposition studies of family income inequality associate 15 to 40 percent of the growth in inequality since the early 1970s with changes in family structure” (p. 906).”
Inequality in Children’s Contexts (2016, background): “The variance of family income was larger from 1975 to 2005 among families with children than among all families (Western et al. 2008), while the ratio of household incomes at the 90th and 10th percentiles was higher among all households than among those with children from 1967 to 2008 (Jencks et al.”
Economic Insecurity and Social Stratification (2012, background): “But a large fraction of the increase in inequality was related to increasing income variability within groups—among workers of the same age and education, among families of the same race and employment profile (Lemieux 2006, Western et al. 2008).”