Ingroup Trust, Outgroup Trust, and Internet Use During Situational Crises: Evidence from Chinese Panel Data, 2016 –2020
This study examined how Chinese ingroup and outgroup trust have changed by the recent situational crises, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the China-US trade war since 2019. Based on a nationwide individual-level longitudinal dataset, we found ingroup trust has significantly increased within persons, while outgroup trust in Americans ceased its upward pattern and obviously decreased in 2020. The trends imply negative correlations between ingroup and outgroup trust as the Antagonism Theory stated. To better comprehend the connections, we utilized temporal and regional variations of pandemic exposure and adopted difference-in-diff...
Source: Social Indicators Research - December 4, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Can Multiple Shocks Affect Household Income? Evidence from Poor Rural Areas in China
AbstractWhen transforming from a traditional rural economy to a rapid marketization period, it is essential to consider the relationship between multiple shocks and household income in poor rural areas of China. Using two waves of a rural household surveys from six poor counties in China between 2015 and 2018, we examine the effect of multiple shocks on households ’ income and explore the heterogeneity of different shocks and households based on income. The multiple linear regression and quantile regression results demonstrate that multiple shocks negatively affect farm household income, and the range of impact is wideni...
Source: Social Indicators Research - December 2, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Bad Jobs on the Rise? Age, Period, and Cohort Effects on Low-Paid Work in Hong Kong, 1986 –2016
AbstractLow-paid employment is a global challenge that has become more acute in recent years. While previous research has examined the micro and macro factors associated with low-paid work, the temporal dynamics of this phenomenon have received little attention. We address this gap in the literature by disentangling the effects of age, period, and cohort on low-paid work and documenting their demographic heterogeneity. Using repeated cross-sectional survey data derived from the 1986 –2016 Population Census and By-census, we employ a novel age-period-cohort approach (HAPC-CCREM) to study the temporal patterns of low-paid ...
Source: Social Indicators Research - December 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Digital Financial Inclusion, Income Inequality, and Vulnerability to Relative Poverty
AbstractGoverning relative poverty is an indispensable part of achieving inclusive growth. Using data from the China Household Financial Survey, we scientifically investigate the impact of China's development of digital financial inclusion on household vulnerability to relative poverty. The research results show that the development of digital financial inclusion can significantly alleviate the vulnerability to relative poverty of households, and effectively prevent families from falling into a state of relative poverty in the future. The results of the heterogeneity analysis show that the effect of digital financial inclu...
Source: Social Indicators Research - December 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Rural Households ’ Internet Use on Common Prosperity: Evidence from the Chinese Social Survey
AbstractBased on microdata from the Chinese Social Survey (CSS2019) describing 6097 rural households, this paper uses the weighted average method to measure the level of internet use and describe common prosperity in terms of “comprehensive” prosperity (measured with per capita income level) and “universal” affluence (measured with income inequality). Subsequently, the ordinary least squares method is used to estimate the common prosperity effect of internet use. The research draws the following conclusions. (1) Internet use significantly raises the per capita income level of rural households, reduces income inequa...
Source: Social Indicators Research - December 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
National Culture and Financial Capability: A Global Perspective
This study attempts to answer an important question: What is the relationship between culture and financial capability at the country level? The data for this study originate from four diverse sources provided by the World Bank (two datasets), United Nations, and Hofstede Insights. The final dataset includes data from 137 countries. As a measure of financial capability, we use an aggregate index combining financial behavior (account ownership) and financial knowledge. Culture is measured using six dimensions of national cultures from Hofstede Insights: Power Distance, Masculinity, Uncertainty Avoidance, Individualism, Long...
Source: Social Indicators Research - December 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Job Satisfaction and the ‘Great Resignation’: An Exploratory Machine Learning Analysis
This study examines the determinants of job satisfaction using a large survey dataset, namely the LISS Work and Schooling module on an extensive sample of persons from the Netherlands. To handle these big data, machine learning models based on binary recursive partitioning algorithms are employed. Particularly, sequential and randomized tree-based techniques are used for prediction and clustering purposes. In order to interpret the results, the study calculates the sizes and directions of the effects of model features using computations based on the concept of Shapley value in cooperative game theory. The findings suggest ...
Source: Social Indicators Research - December 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Ranking of Global Smart Cities Using Dynamic Factor Analysis
In this study, a static and dynamic ranking of 33 selected cities for the period 2005 –2019 is provided using dynamic factor analysis. In this comparative study, cities are evaluated and ranked on various smart drivers including technology, community, infrastructure, community, and governance to identify the best (and worst) smart city and to highlight the changes in smartness over the last 15 years. The results show that urban smartness has changed significantly over the past 15 years, but the smartness of most individual cities in the study has either steadily improved or remained constant. Further, smart practices v...
Source: Social Indicators Research - December 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Quality of Life, Well-Being and the Human Development Index: A Media Narrative for the Developed World?
AbstractThe Human Development Index (HDI) produced by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has been in existence since 1990. In its annual Human Development Reports (HDRs) the UNDP provides rankings of countries based on the HDI, and the idea is that these will help bring about positive change as countries compare their performance in the rankings with what they see as their peers. The HDRs are widely reported in the media, and previous research has suggested that the extent of newspaper reporting of the HDI (i.e. number of articles) is greater for those countries at the bottom and top end of the rankings. Howev...
Source: Social Indicators Research - December 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Does an Ageing Population Affect Crime Rates in the United States?
AbstractThe United States is undergoing a demographic transition in which the proportion of individuals aged 65 years and above in total population is increasing. The age-crime relationship is a well-tested theory in criminology. A commonly accepted theory that has been unanimously supported by empirical evidence is that the propensity to commit crime decreases with age. But recent data from the FBI depicts an increase in crimes committed by the elderly. Notwithstanding the increasing trend in arrests among the elderly, we test the hypothesis that population ageing decreases total crime rates, violent crime rates, proper...
Source: Social Indicators Research - December 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
The Index Construction and Evaluation of Quality of Life in China and Its Spatial Mismatch with Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from a City-Level Perspective
AbstractOver the past two decades, China has undergone a rapid urbanization process. As such, determining the current status of the quality of life in Chinese cities and how to improve it has become a common concern for all sectors of Chinese society. This paper employs a combination of city-level macro data and individual-level micro data to construct a quality of life evaluation system that contains 9 dimensions and 35 secondary indicators. The quality of life of 194 cities in China has been further assessed using the Pena distance method (DP2). The study found that there are significant regional differences in the quali...
Source: Social Indicators Research - December 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Cultural Intolerance, in Practice: Social Variation in Food and Drink Avoidances in Italy, 2003 –2016
AbstractSociological literature on cultural practices seeking to understand the social differentiation of taste pays limited attention to what people avoid consuming, despite its potential as a strategic indicator of taste. Avoidance has special relevance for the understanding of eating and drinking practices which are often characterized by exclusion of items for health, hedonic, reputational, or spiritual reasons. Making use of rich data on twenty-three items commonly consumed by Italian adults, this paper investigates how avoidances —i.e. what people claimnever to eat or drink —are clustered, socially patterned and ...
Source: Social Indicators Research - December 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Why Cross-Country Convergence of Income is Unsustainable: Evidence from Inclusive Wealth in 140 Countries
AbstractRecent economic convergence studies show that cross-country income inequalities have declined since the 1990s. However, this study finds that this episode of income convergence is unsustainable in the long run because countries' capacity to earn income diverges. Specifically, the paper analyses the convergence of per-capita Inclusive Wealth, which comprises all capital assets that contribute to the production of goods and services and the well-being of its society. Utilizing a diverse array of techniques to estimate convergence in a sample of 140 countries between 1990 and 2010, the paper demonstrates the simultane...
Source: Social Indicators Research - December 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
