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| The escape from poverty among rural and urban elders | | Author(s) | Leif Jensen, Diane K McLaughlin |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 37, no 4, August 1997 |
| Pages | pp 462-468 |
| Keywords | Poor elderly ; Urban areas ; Rural areas ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | This study explored the prevalence and nature of exits from poverty among poor older people in the United States (US), with special attention to rural-urban differences in this regard. Analysing twenty years of data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, the study found that 40% of poor older people leave poverty after one year. However, descriptive data suggests that many of these exits resulted from small increases in income that merely nudged older people over the poverty line. Rural older people were less likely to exit poverty than their urban counterparts, and this disadvantage widened when statistical controls were applied in multivariate models. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980605404 A |
| Classmark | F:W6: RK: RL: 3J: 7T |
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