PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Kristin L. Perkins
AU  - Robert J. Sampson
TI  - Compounded Deprivation in the Transition to Adulthood: The Intersection of Racial and Economic Inequality Among Chicagoans, 1995–2013
AID  - 10.7758/RSF.2015.1.1.03
DP  - 2015 Nov 01
TA  - RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
PG  - 35--54
VI  - 1
IP  - 1
4099  - http://www.rsfjournal.org/content/1/1/35.short
4100  - http://www.rsfjournal.org/content/1/1/35.full
AB  - This paper investigates acute, compounded, and persistent deprivation in a representative sample of Chicago adolescents transitioning to young adulthood. Our investigation, based on four waves of longitudinal data from 1995 to 2013, is motivated by three goals. First, we document the prevalence of individual and neighborhood poverty over time, especially among whites, blacks, and Latinos. Second, we explore compounded deprivation, describing the extent to which study participants are simultaneously exposed to individual and contextual forms of deprivation—including material deprivation (such as poverty) and social-organizational deprivation (for example, low collective efficacy)—for multiple phases of the life course from adolescence up to age thirty-two. Third, we isolate the characteristics that predict transitions out of compounded and persistent poverty. The results provide new evidence on the crosscutting adversities that were exacerbated by the Great Recession and on the deep connection of race to persistent and compounded deprivation in the transition to adulthood.