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Title: Poverty in the Family: Siblings of the Black and White Middle Class
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Pattillo-McCoy, Mary Heflin, Colleen M. |
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Poverty in the Family: Siblings of the Black and White Middle Class IPR Working Paper WP-98-20, Institute for Policy Research - Northwestern Unversity, 1998 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Institute for Policy Research - Northwestern University - (formerly Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research) Keyword(s): Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); Black Studies; Educational Attainment; Employment; Family Structure; Kinship; Poverty; Racial Differences; Siblings; Socioeconomic Factors Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This article is motivated by qualitative findings of class diversity in the family networks of middle class African Americans. To test the generalizeability of the qualitative data, we use the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) to assess the socio-economic characteristics of siblings of middle class blacks and whites. We draw three middle class samples based on income, occupation and education. Bivariate analyses of the three samples show race differences in the income, poverty status, public assistance receipt, employment, family composition, and educational attainment of siblings. In the multivariate analysis, we find that having been poor as an adolescent reduces the effect of being African American on having a poor sibling and on having a sibling receiving AFDC, capturing the intergenerational component of poverty, as well as the recency of the black middle class. We argue that the disparate family contexts in which middle class blacks and whites are embedded have ramifications for their relative well-being, and contribute to the fragility of the former. |
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Pattillo-McCoy, Mary and Colleen M. Heflin. "Poverty in the Family: Siblings of the Black and White Middle Class." IPR Working Paper WP-98-20, Institute for Policy Research - Northwestern Unversity, 1998. |