Poverty dynamics, poverty thresholds and mortality: An age-stage Markovian model.

Recent studies have examined the risk of poverty throughout the life course, but few have considered how transitioning in and out of poverty shape the dynamic heterogeneity and mortality disparities of a cohort at each age. Here we use state-by-age modeling to capture individual heterogeneity in cro...

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Main Authors: Shayna Fae Bernstein, David Rehkopf, Shripad Tuljapurkar, Carol C Horvitz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5955488?pdf=render