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Direct linkWilson, Franklin D. – Institute for Research on Poverty, 2016
This paper analyzes age and cohort changes in the occupational attainment of Blacks and Whites born in successive decades from 1910 to 1979. Occupational attainment is operationalized as "occupational returns to education" and "earnings returns to occupation." The primary objective is to determine whether the relative…
Descriptors: African Americans, Whites, Racial Differences, Generational Differences
Peer reviewedKelley, Jane E.; Darragh, Janine J. – Reading Horizons, 2011
Researchers conducted a critical multicultural analysis of 58 realistic fiction children's picture books that portray people living in poverty and compared these depictions to recent statistics from the United States Census Bureau. The picture books were examined for the following qualities: main character, geographic locale and time era, focal…
Descriptors: Fiction, Childrens Literature, Poverty, Picture Books
Parker, Timothy S. – Rural Conditions and Trends, 1993
Nonmetro educational attainment increased substantially between 1970 and 1990; however, nonmetro areas continued to lag metro in both high school and college completion rates. The metro-nonmetro gap in high school completion rates narrowed, whereas the gap in four-year college degree completion rates widened. Compares completion rates by region,…
Descriptors: Census Figures, College Graduates, Differences, Educational Attainment
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Waldfogel, Jane – Journal of Human Resources, 2004
This paper uses data from the 1970, 1980, and 1990 Censuses to investigate the impact of welfare benefits across Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) on the incidence of single motherhood and headship for young women. A contribution of the paper is the inclusion of both MSA fixed effects and MSA-specific time trends to account for fixed and…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Welfare Services, Mothers, Fatherless Family
Download full textPorter, Kathryn H. – 1989
Popular notions of poverty in America overlook the rural poor or assume that their problems are the same as those of the inner-city poor. This report, the first in a series on rural poverty, describes the characteristics of the rural poor and examines rural-urban differences in poverty. In 1987, the poverty rate was 16.9% in nonmetropolitan areas,…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Low Income Groups, Metropolitan Areas, Place of Residence
MDC, Inc., Chapel Hill, NC. – 1998
This report builds upon the "State of the South, 1996" report by concentrating on how various segments of the region's population are faring, with special attention to gender, ethnicity, and education. States included in the regional analysis are Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Census Figures, Education Work Relationship, Educational Attainment
