Trial reportPloS one2019
A growing socioeconomic divide: Effects of the Great Recession on perceived economic distress in the United States.
Trial report in PloS one, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Stress Due to Inflation: Changes over Time, Correlates, and Coping Strategies among Working-Age Adults in the United States.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
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- Associations among Financial Well-Being, Daily Relationship Tension, and Daily Affect in Two Adult Cohorts Separated by the Great Recession.Journal of social and personal relationships · 2023Article
- Associations between relative deprivation with opioid use among working-age adults during the great recession.Journal of psychiatric research · 2023Article
- Changing associations between socioeconomic status and self-reported discrimination from the 1990s to the 2010s in the United States.International journal of psychology : Journal international de psychologie · 2022Article
- Effects of the Great Recession on Educational Disparities in Cardiometabolic Health.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2022Article
- Persistent association between family socioeconomic status and primary school performance in Britain over 95 years.NPJ science of learning · 2022Article
- A Changing Landscape of Health Opportunity in the United States: Increases in the Strength of Association Between Childhood Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Adult Health Between the 1990s and the 2010s.American journal of epidemiology · 2021Article
- Debts of despair: Education, financial losses, and precursors of deaths of despair.SSM - population health · 2021Article
- Predictors of well-being and productivity among software professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic - a longitudinal study.Empirical software engineering · 2021Article
- Trends in the diagnosis of diseases of despair in the United States, 2009-2018: a retrospective cohort study.BMJ open · 2020Article
- Mental health, pain, and risk of drug misuse: A nationwide cohort study.Addictive behaviors · 2020Article
- Trends in Premature Deaths From Alcoholic Liver Disease in the U.S., 1999-2018.American journal of preventive medicine · 2020Article
- Unrecognised self-injury mortality (SIM) trends among racial/ethnic minorities and women in the USA.Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention · 2020Observational
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Abstract
We demonstrate widening socioeconomic disparities in perceived economic distress among Americans, characterized by increasing distress at the bottom and improved perceptions at the top of the socioeconomic ladder. We then assess the extent to which hardships related to the Great Recession account for the growing social disparity in economic distress. Based on the concept of loss aversion, we also test whether the psychological pain associated with a financial loss is greater than the perceived benefit of an equivalent gain. Analyses are based on longitudinal survey data from the Midlife Development in the US study. Results suggest that widening social disparities in perceived economic distress between the mid-2000s and mid-2010s are explained in part by differential exposure to hardships related to the Great Recession, the effects of which have lingered even four to five years after the recession officially ended. Yet, auxiliary analyses show that the socioeconomic disparities in economic distress widened by nearly as much (if not more) during the period from 1995-96 to 2004-05 as they did during the period in which the recession occurred, which suggests that the factors driving these trends may have already been in motion prior to the recession. Consistent with the loss aversion hypothesis, perceptions of financial strain appear to be somewhat more strongly affected by losses in income/assets than by gains, but the magnitude of the differentials are small and the results are not robust. Our findings paint a dismal portrait of a growing socioeconomic divide in economic distress throughout the period from the mid-1990s to the mid-2010s, although we cannot say whether these trends afflict all regions of the US equally. Spatial analysis of aggregate-level mortality and objective economic indicators could provide indirect evidence, but ultimately economic "despair" must be measured subjectively by asking people how they perceive their financial situations.
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