The Impact of Housing Demolition on Residents ’ Happiness: Empirical Evidence from China
This study examined the relationship between housing demolition and residents’ happiness using data from the China Family Panel Studies. Based on the OLS model and the staggered DID model, we found that housing demolition can significantly enhance Chinese residents’ happiness, especially for those residents with non-agricultural livelihood strategies before the demolition. However, this salient positive relationship was not observed for residents dominated by agricultural livelihood strategies. In addition, we also found a time effect in the relationship we are concerned about. That is, if demolition happened in the pa...
Source: Social Indicators Research - July 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Model for Promoting Corporate Social Performance Measurement and Social Change: Elaboration from Causal Analysis Between the Both
The objective of this work is to evaluate the impact of corporate social performance measurement on social change with regard to their typologies, in order to build a model for promoting both. To achieve this objective, structural equation modeling is used with the maximum likelihood method and a confirmatory analysis. This modeling is supported by optimal scaling and stability analysis. The findings show that hidden costs via latent variable"Social and Hidden Cost Accounting" is the most significant cause of social change (latent variable) whose most significant typology is its nature, which distinguishes situat...
Source: Social Indicators Research - June 30, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
A Multiversal Model of Vibration of Effects of the Equitable and Sustainable Well-Being (BES) on Fertility
This study checks the hypothesis that sustainable well-being is a determinant factor of fertility through the application of a multiversal method based on the assumptions of Vibration of Effects (VoE) model of multiversal sampling on the Italian Equitable and Sustainable Well-being (BES) dataset. For 48 social indicators of well-being, adopting the Province as statistical unit, the estimate of linear effect has been systematically sampled 1024 times. This multiversal sampling allows to estimate the component of the hypothetical variability of the estimate of the effect size that depends on the theoretical choices of the an...
Source: Social Indicators Research - June 29, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Beyond Income and Inequality: The Role of Socio-political Factors for Alleviating Energy Poverty in Europe
AbstractIn each country, the occurrence of energy poverty among resident households is usually related to low income and its unequal distribution. Like other manifestations of material deprivation, however, such a phenomenon is likely to be also correlated with some internal socio-political factors that allow its persistence by preventing effective solutions. In this paper, we build and analyse a dataset for European countries by assessing the role of the perceived quality of internal public governance on different measures of energy deprivation. Specifically, we rely on the Worldwide Governance Indicators provided by the ...
Source: Social Indicators Research - June 27, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
A Natural Language Processing Analysis of Newspapers Coverage of Hong Kong Protests Between 1998 and 2020
This article investigates how the SCMP, the China Daily-and western-based newspapers cover protests in Hong Kong in an effort to identify changes in journalistic practices between 1998 and 2020. It combines natural language processing (NLP) with a qualitative investigation of a novel corpus of newspaper articles spanning 22 years. It enlists topic modeling to contrast the treatment of protests in Hong Ko ng diachronically and across news sources. Through comparison of lexical frequency and lexical usage it showcases preferences and discrepancies in the use of protest-relevant keywords in the newspapers’ articles....
Source: Social Indicators Research - June 21, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
The Effects of Schooling Level on Economic Convergence in Emerging Countries: Evidence from Romania
AbstractIncreasing economic inequalities between Romanian counties triggered a wealth of research on this topic, including many theoretical and empirical studies focused on assessing the divergence process. While previous studies addressing the regional economic convergence/divergence in Romania applied various methods of investigation, some even acknowledging the spatial dependence and employing specific spatial econometric models, our study aims to advance the empirical analysis by using a more powerful investigation tool, namely the dynamic spatial panel model, important for capturing the spatial spillover effects. Draw...
Source: Social Indicators Research - June 20, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
E-Government Use, Perceived Transparency, Public Knowledge of Government Performance, and Satisfaction with Government: An Analysis of Mediating, Moderating, and Framing Mechanisms Based on the COVID-19 Outbreak Control Survey Data from China
AbstractAccording to the existing literature on public management, many factors affect popular satisfaction with the government (referred to as “government satisfaction”), one of which is the use of e-government. Particularly, many e-government proponents regard increasing government transparency as an important way to improve government satisfaction. To test the validity of this assertion, this paper uses an Ordinary Least Squares (OLS ) regression model to analyze survey data on individuals’ e-government usage frequencies in China and their satisfaction with the local government during the COVID-19 pandemic. We fin...
Source: Social Indicators Research - June 17, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Does Adoption of Information and Communication Technology Reduce Objective and Subjective Well-Being Inequality? Evidence from China
AbstractThe adoption of information and communication technology (ICT), such as the Internet, smartphones, and tablets, has increased markedly. The present study examines how this adoption affects objective and subjective well-being inequality, using the 2018 China Family Panel Studies data. We employ the Gini coefficient to measure objective well-being inequality indicators (income inequality and consumption inequality) and the variance to measure subjective well-being inequality indicators (happiness inequality and life-satisfaction inequality). The two-stage residual inclusion approach is utilized to address the endogen...
Source: Social Indicators Research - June 15, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Digitalisation in Italy: Evidence from a New Regional Index
AbstractThe geographic digital divide has a relevant, though largely unexplored, within country dimension. This paper proposes an index of digital development for the Italian NUTS2 regions (rDESI) based on the European Commission ’s Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI). The rDESI monitors the regional digital divide along five dimensions: (i) the infrastructure and the network usage (connectivity), (ii) the population’s digital skills, (iii) the use of internet services by households, (iv) the integration of ICT by f irms, and (v) the level of digital services offered by the local government. According to our findi...
Source: Social Indicators Research - June 14, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
The Impact of Education and Culture on Poverty Reduction: Evidence from Panel Data of European Countries
AbstractThe 2030 Agenda has among its key objectives the poverty eradication through increasing the level of education. A good level of education and investment in culture of a country is in fact necessary to guarantee a sustainable economy, in which coexists satisfactory levels of quality of life and an equitable distribution of income. There is a lack of studies in particular on the relations between some significant dimensions, such as education, culture and poverty, considering time lags for the measurement of impacts. Therefore, this study aims to fill this gap by focusing on the relationship between education, cultur...
Source: Social Indicators Research - June 14, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Household and Individual Digitisation and Deprivation: A Comparative Analysis Between Italian and Spanish Regions
AbstractDespite the progress of the information society, there are currently still notable differences between the access to, and usage of, information and communication technologies (ICTs) and Internet for a broad range of activities by individuals in the regions of Italy and Spain. These differences could be related to features of material and social deprivation. With 13 variables of the 40 NUTS 2 of Italy and Spain, deriving from EUROSTAT regional statistics for 2018, the aim is to respond to the following questions. Is there a relationship between the variables of ICT access and usage by households and individuals and ...
Source: Social Indicators Research - June 14, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
