Browsing by Author "Keister, Lisa A"
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Chinese Immigrant Wealth: Heterogeneity in Adaptation.
(2016)Chinese immigrants are a diverse and growing group whose members provide a unique opportunity to examine within-immigrant group differences in adaptation. In this paper, we move beyond thinking of national-origin groups ... -
Financial Asset Ownership: The Case of Chinese and Indian Immigrants to the United States
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Immigrants in the one percent: The national origin of top wealth owners.
(PLoS One, 2017)BACKGROUND: Economic inequality in the United States is extreme, but little is known about the national origin of affluent households. Households in the top one percent by total wealth own vastly disproportionate quantities ... -
Lifestyles through Expenditures: A Case-Based Approach to Saving.
(Sociol Sci, 2016)Treating people as cases that are proximate in a behavior space-representing lifestyles-rather than as markers of single variables has a long history in sociology. Yet, because it is difficult to find analytically tractable ... -
Mexican american mobility: Early life processes and adult wealth ownership
(Social Forces, 2015-03-01)© The Author 2014.Mexican Americans are a large group whose mobility patterns can provide important insight into immigrant assimilation processes. It is well known that Mexicans have not attained economic parity with whites, ... -
Race and Consumption: Black and White Disparities in Household Spending
(Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 2016-05-09)Differences in consumption patterns are usually treated as a matter of preferences. In this article, the authors examine consumption from a structural perspective and argue that black households face unique constraints ...
