Hispanics at the Starting Line
Poverty among Newborn Infants in Established Gateways and New Destinations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18995403 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D T Lichter (0000-0002-0292-1415, Cornell University, corresponding author), Scott R Sanders (0000-0002-4708-4518, Brigham Young University), K M Johnson (0000-0001-5621-0312, University of New Hampshire at Manchester) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 94 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 209-235 |
| Publication date | 2015-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Forces (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-7732 • E-ISSN: 1534-7605 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/sf/sov043 |
| OpenAlex | W2049156262 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 41 |
High rates of Hispanic fertility raise an important question: Do Hispanic newborn babies start life's race behind the starting line, poor and disadvantaged? To address this question, we link the newborn infants identified with the new fertility question in the 2006–2010 American Community Survey (ACS) to the poverty status of mothers. Our results document the disproportionately large share (40 percent) of Hispanic babies who are born into poverty. The prospect of poverty is especially high in new Hispanic destinations, especially those in rural areas. For Hispanic newborn babies, poverty cannot be reduced to supply-side explanations that emphasize maladaptive behavioral decision-making of parents, that is, nonmarital or teen childbearing, low educational attainment, acquisition of English language skills, or other dimensions of human capital. Hispanics in new destinations often start well behind the starting line—in poverty and with limited opportunities for upward mobility and an inadequate welfare safety net. The recent concentration of Hispanic poverty in new immigrant destinations portends continuing intergenerational inequality as today's newborn infants make their way to productive adult roles
Destinations · Economics · Library science · Management · Media studies · Political science · Poverty · Sociology · Tourism · Computer Science · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Law · Psychology · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
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The New Destination Disadvantage
Gender, Family, and Community Attachment in a New Destination
Family and household sources of poverty for Black, Hispanic, and White newborns
Contraceptive Consistency and Poverty After Birth
Population Change and Income Inequality in Rural America
New Destinations and the Early Childhood Education of Mexican-Origin Children
The Association Between Legal Status and Poverty Among Immigrants
Neighborhood Disorder, Family Functioning, and Risky Sexual Behaviors in Adolescence
Ethno-Racial Variation in Single Motherhood Prevalences and Penalties for Child Poverty in the United States, 1995–2018
Hope turned sour
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Chinese immigrant entrepreneurship in the United States
Obamacare in action
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New Faces in New Places
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School Stratification in New and Established Latino Destinations
Hispanic Population Growth and Rural Income Inequality
Decomposing Trends in Nonmarital Fertility Among Latinas
The Effects of Poverty on Children
Hispanic Assimilation and Fertility in New U.S. Destinations
A decomposition of trends in poverty among children of immigrants
Residential Integration on the New Frontier
Intergenerational fertility among hispanic women
Integration or Fragmentation? Racial Diversity and the American Future
Spatial variation in poverty-generating processes
The Geography of Exclusion
Assimilation in New Destinations
New Destinations, New Trajectories? The Educational Progress of Hispanic Youth in North Carolina
Natural Increase
Can Immigration Save Small-Town America? Hispanic Boomtowns and the Uneasy Path to Renewal
Social Mobility and Fertility
Restructuring of the US Meat Processing Industry and New Hispanic Migrant Destinations
Beyond the Ballot
Income Inequality
What We Know About Unauthorized Migration
Neighborhood Poverty and Nonmarital Fertility
Immigration and the New Racial Diversity in Rural America
Social Disorganization in New Latino Destinations
An Empirical Examination of Characteristics of Mexican Migrants to Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Areas of the United States
The Impact of Migration on Poverty Concentrations in the United States, 1995-2000
Hispanic Familism Reconsidered
Immigration and earnings inequality in America's new small-town destinations
| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,1 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2023 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |