This is largely built on the theoretical contribution of Max Weber, who argued that society is stratified into hierarchies along various dimensions, creating groups based on different sets of skills, knowledge, and assets. These factors, which Weber defined as individuals' "life chances", produce ...
Deep-rooted racial residential segregation and housing discrimination have given rise to housing disparities among low-income Black young adults in the US. Most studies have focused on single dimensions of housing instability, and thus provide a partial view of how Black young adults experience multipl...
36-39 We believe that this study recasts the understanding of the differences in CVD prevalence as one driven by the differences between persons in the richest quantile whose income and assets continue to increase and persons in the rest of the population whose socioeconomic achievements are ...
Work status is categorised into currently working and not working/never worked. Wealth quintiles represent household economic status assessed using an index of household assets ranging from possessions, amenities and construction type. Principal Component Analysis was used to generate a wealth index and ...
Sub-samples were created based on the groups of interest: child disability vs no child disability within the family and unpaid care vs no unpaid care for children with disabilities. Logistic regression models show sociodemographic factors have similar effects on children’s material deprivation and ...
26 Other covariates included age, sex, urban/rural residence, education, household wealth index (a validated index of household assets),27 marital status, occupational class, INTERHEART risk score (a composite index measuring cardiovascular risk burdens),28 smoking status, alcohol use, diet quality ...
Spousal Loans at the Prescribed Rate: Lend money to a spouse at the CRA’s prescribed rate for investment, with the investment income taxed in the lower-income spouse’s hands. See my section below for more details. Capital Gains Splitting: Sharing the sale profits of assets between spouses ...
One exception is Parker (2003), which uses evidence from the Retirement Survey to describe the income and wealth of self- employed pensioners in the UK. Using the notion of lifetime wealth, Parker finds that among the self-employed, housing assets account for the greatest proportion of wealth...
6,12,19,22 Second, while MEPS includes income from diverse sources, including pension funds and retirement accounts,44 we do not specifically address access to financial savings or other assets that may help avert the financial consequences of high out-of-pocket health care costs. Third, ...
However, the median income earned by Ivy League graduates from U Penn, Princeton, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale, and Brown is unimpressive in the beginning. For schools with single-digit acceptance rates, you'd think the median income earned would be much higher. Ivy League colleges are ...