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Direct linkBrady, David; Fullerton, Andrew S.; Cross, Jennifer Moren – Social Forces, 2009
Our study analyzes how political context, embodied by the welfare state and Leftist political actors, shapes individual poverty. Using the Luxembourg Income Study, we conduct a multi-level analysis of working-aged adult poverty across 18 affluent Western democracies. Our index of welfare generosity has a negative effect on poverty net of…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Poverty, Family (Sociological Unit), Foreign Countries
Williams, Kristi; Sassler, Sharon; Nicholson, Lisa M. – Social Forces, 2008
This study examines whether the mental and physical health of single mothers benefit from marriage or cohabitation compared to childless women who marry. Results indicate that marrying is associated with similar declines in psychological distress for single mothers and childless women, but only when that marriage endures. Single mothers do not…
Descriptors: Mothers, Marital Satisfaction, Females, Physical Health
Lutz, Amy – Social Forces, 2006
This paper investigates the effects of individual, family, social and demographic characteristics on the maintenance of Spanish among English-speaking Latino youth. This research finds effects of generation, gender, race, parent's English proficiency, single-parent status, parental income, and neighborhood concentration of co-ethnics as well as…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Youth, Individual Characteristics, Social Characteristics
