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Peer reviewedBrowne, Irene – Social Forces, 1995
Analysis of Current Population Survey data indicates that each successive cohort of white family heads born since 1944-48 faced an increasingly greater chance of being poor, even with the increase in female-headed families controlled. The black cohort effect is not significant, but period effects suggest that blacks' economic gains of the 1970s…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Baby Boomers, Blacks, Cohort Analysis
