Racial similarity in the relationship between poverty and homicide rates: Comparing retransformed coefficients
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The study illustrates the importance of methodological issue for the substantive question of whether poverty's relationship to homicide is racially invariant. After applying broadly useful retransformation formula, poverty's effect on homicide rate appears stronger for whites than Africans-Americans, and further application of bootstrap simulations necessary to calculate the standard error of the difference in coefficients suggests that this racial discrepancy is not statistically significant.
Publication Name: Social Science Research
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0049-089X
Year: 2005
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Social structure and homicide in post-Soviet Russia
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Russian homicide rate is among the highest in the world, with tremendous variation throughout the large nation. The effects of social structural characteristics on homicide rates in the Russian region is studied and results reveal that commonly tested covariates such as poverty and single-parent households are positively associated with regional homicide victimization rates, as was a proxy for heavy drinking.
Publication Name: Social Science Research
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0049-089X
Year: 2005
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Thinking outside the (black) box: measuring black and multiracial identifications on surveys
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The one-drop rule which defines everyone with one black ancestor as black is studied with the help of available survey data. Results concluded that identifications pattern couldn't be described easily by one-drop rule.
Publication Name: Social Science Research
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0049-089X
Year: 2007
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