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Income, Poverty, and Material Hardship Among Older Americans
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2015 Using data from the 2008 and 2010 waves of the Health and Retirement Study to analyze the determinants of material hardship among individuals ages sixty-five and older, I look at five self-reported hardships: food insecurity, skipped meals, medication ...
Helen Levy
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The effect of paternal incarceration on material hardship [PDF]
Social Service Review, 2010 Widespread use of incarceration in the US, coupled with high rates of inmate fatherhood, has raised concerns for the wellbeing of more than two million affected children.
Garfinkel, Irwin +2 more
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Hardship in the Heartland: Associations Between Rurality, Income, and Material Hardship. [PDF]
Rural Sociol, 2022 Abstract Approximately one in three US households have experienced material hardship, including food, healthcare access and transportation hardship. The inadequate or unstable provision of basic needs is more typical in households with children or persons of color and is associated with numerous negative outcomes.
Conrad A, Ronnenberg M.
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Longitudinal Patterns of Material Hardship among US Families. [PDF]
Soc Indic Res, 2022 AbstractMaterial hardship has emerged as a direct measure of deprivation in the United States and an important complement to income poverty, providing different evidence about the ways in which deprivation may affect wellbeing. This study addresses gaps in our knowledge about deprivation as the first to examine patterns of material hardship over time ...
Thomas MMC.
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Material hardship and telomere length in children. [PDF]
Child DevAbstract Telomere length (TL) serves as a biomarker of exposure to stressors, including material hardship. Data from the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study (1998–2015) were utilized to determine whether prior material hardship was associated with shorter salivary TL at years 9 and 15.
Moeckel C +4 more
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Poverty and the Incidence of Material Hardship, Revisited. [PDF]
Soc Sci Q, 2021 ObjectiveWe examine trends in seven types of material hardship, such as food and housing hardships, and how their incidence by poverty status changed over the 1992–2011 period.MethodWe use data from multiple panels of the Survey of Income and Program Participation and logistic regressions to examine these relationships.ResultsWe find declines in four ...
Iceland J, Kovach C, Creamer J.
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Material Hardship and the Living Arrangements of Older Americans. [PDF]
J Fam Econ Issues, 2023 This study investigates the extent to which the household living arrangements of older adults influences their experiences of material hardship. Using data from the 2014 Panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation, we run linear probability models with individual fixed effects to estimate the likelihood that a change in living arrangements ...
Heflin C, Patnaik H.
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Poverty, Material Hardship, and Depression* [PDF]
Social Science Quarterly, 2009 Objective. Mental health disorders are of great social, economic, and policy concern. A higher incidence of major depressive disorder has been reported among women living in or near poverty. Our study examines the extent to which the relationship between income and depression is mediated by measures of material hardship.Methods.
Colleen M, Heflin, John, Iceland
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Children's health status: examining the associations among income poverty, material hardship, and parental factors. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2007 BACKGROUND: We examined a model of multiple mediating pathways of income poverty, material hardship, parenting factors, and child health status to understand how material hardship and parental factors mediate the effects of poverty on child health.
Godwin S Ashiabi, Keri K O'Neal
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BMC Public Health, 2023 Background Measures of financial hardship have been suggested to supplement traditional indicators of socioeconomic status (SES) to elucidate household economic well-being.
Agus Surachman +2 more
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