Cumulative Advantage, Cumulative Disadvantage, and Evolving Patterns of Late-Life Inequality | Zendy

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Cumulative Advantage, Cumulative Disadvantage, and Evolving Patterns of Late-Life Inequality

Author(s) -

Stephen Crystal,

Dennis G. Shea,

Adriana Reyes

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

the gerontologist

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.524

H-Index - 138

eISSN - 1758-5341

pISSN - 0016-9013

DOI - 10.1093/geront/gnw056

Subject(s) - inequality , economic inequality , gini coefficient , demographic economics , economics , asset (computer security) , social inequality , life course approach , cohort , survey of income and program participation , cohort effect , income distribution , income inequality metrics , demography , sociology , population , psychology , medicine , mathematical analysis , mathematics , computer science , social psychology , computer security

Earlier studies have identified a pattern of cumulative advantage leading to increased within-cohort economic inequality over the life course, but there is a need to better understand how levels of inequality by age have changed in the evolving economic environment of recent decades. We utilized Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) data to compare economic inequality across age groups for 2010 versus 1983-1984.

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