Department of Community and Environmental Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, United States; The Odum Institute for Research in Social Science, Department of Sociology and Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, United States; Applied Population Laboratory, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, United States.
Soc Sci Res. 2012 Jan;41(1):146-59. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2011.07.007. Epub 2011 Aug 12.
This study builds on research demonstrating that sub-regions within the United States have different processes that abet poverty and that child poverty is spatially differentiated. We focus on the social attributes of the local area to assess what the geographic place represents in terms of social characteristics, namely racial/ethnic composition and economic structure, and to resolve apparent inconsistencies in poverty research. Using spatial regime and spatial error regression techniques to analyze county census data, we examine spatial differentiation in the relationships that generate child poverty. Our approach addresses the conceptual and technical aspects of spatial inequality. Results show that local-area processes are at play with implications for more nuanced theoretical models and anti-poverty policies that consider systematic differences in factors contributing to child poverty according to the racial/ethnic and economic contexts.
本研究建立在表明美国各地区存在不同的助长贫困的过程，以及儿童贫困存在空间差异的研究基础上。我们关注的是当地的社会属性，以评估地理空间在社会特征方面代表了什么，即种族/民族构成和经济结构，并解决贫困研究中的明显不一致。我们使用空间制度和空间误差回归技术来分析县人口普查数据，以研究导致儿童贫困的关系中的空间差异。我们的方法解决了空间不平等的概念和技术方面的问题。研究结果表明，地方进程在发挥作用，这对更细致入微的理论模型和扶贫政策具有启示意义，这些政策考虑了导致儿童贫困的因素根据种族/民族和经济背景的系统性差异。
