Professor of Sociology at Pennsylvania State University and Senior Scientist at University's Population Research Institute. His interests include comparative research, social change, and statistical methods. At present, he is developing methods for decomposing change in inequality, and applying those methods to decompose change in income inequality across countries. All areas of sociology are welcome.
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You must have Acrobat in order to read PDF files. Childhood poverty continues to be a serious problem in the United States. Child poverty rates in the U.S. are higher now than they were two decades ago, and current rates are 1.5 to 4 times as high as those in Canada and Western Europe. Moreover, the impact of family income on schooling is greatest for children from low-income families. This article is the first in a collection of four articles in the June issue that presents theories bearing on the emergence of structure from microprocesses.