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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Feb 24.
Published in final edited form as: AJS. 2011 May;116(6):1934–1981. doi: 10.1086/660009

Table 1.

Percentage of parent/child pairs exposed to neighborhood poverty under three different treatment definitions, by generation and race

Treatment definition:
Group ≥10% poor ≥20% poor ≥40% poor
Alla (N=1556):
  Parent 57% 36% 8%
  Child 55% 28% 4%
  Both 45% 20% 2%
African-Americans (N=730):
  Parent 92% 70% 18%
  Child 84% 52% 7%
  Both 78% 41% 3%
Whites (N=792):
  Parent 23% 5% 0%
  Child 28% 6% 1%
  Both 14% 2% 0%

Note: Includes 34 parent-child pairs of other races.