aDistribution of income between genders, races and the population in general in the United States has been the subject of study by scholars and institutions. Inequality between male and female workers in the US has decreased considerably over the last several decades,[1] inequality between black ...
Measures of Income Two common sources of income data are the Annual Social and Economic supplement to the Current Population Survey (CPS) and federal income tax returns submitted to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The U.S. Census Bureau, which conducts the CPS, calculates “money income....
Racial/ethnic minorities and lower-income groups in the USA are at a higher risk of death from exposure to PM2.5 than are other population/income groups2,3,4,5. Moreover, disparities in exposure to air pollution among population and income groups are known to exist6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13...
Income inequality and health: the role of population size, inequality threshold, period effects and lag effects BACKGROUND: Income inequality has been associated with worse health outcomes in several but not all studies. The heterogeneity across studies may be explai... N Kondo,RM Van Dam,G Se...
The non-linear risk of mortality by income level in a healthy population: US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey mortality follow-up cohort, 1... Background: An examination of where in the income distribution income is most strongly associated with risk of mortality will provide guida...
A population-level quantile regression was estimated at decile increments to determine the factors that affect net farm income (NFI) and net worth (NETW) and if they changed across the time periods.Findings Adjusted-Gini coefficients were estimated and indicated that income inequality was greater ...
and L.B. Khor (1993): “Undocumented Immigration and Income Inequality in the Native-Born Population of the US: Econometric Evidence”, Applied Economics . 25, 157–163. View ArticleWINEGARDEN, C.R. AND BOON, KL. 1993. Undocumented immigration and income inequality in the native-born ...
This study assessed whether documented effects of income inequality on health are consistent across demographic subgroups of the US population. Data from the National Health Interview Survey on White and Black non-Hispanics were used. Logistic regression models were estimated with SUDAAN software. Perceiv...
Our sample was representative of the US population and similar in distribution of demographic characteristics to that of the NHANES sample. The CLIMB sample had a lower income than the NHANES sample (Table 1). A total of 458 participants (8.5%) had depression symptoms before COVID-19, and ...
On the coasts of the conterminous USA, climate-induced sea levels are rising faster than the global average3, with an expected increase over the next few decades (Fig.1and Extended Data Fig.1). Owing to its geography and population distribution, the USA is a coastal nation, with more than...