Neighborhood health, social structure and family violence
Publication date: Available online 15 February 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Richard Stansfield, Erin DohertyAbstractWithin a large field of family violence research, a slowly growing body of literature has examined community-level variables to explain variation in violence. Studies investigating the role of ecological factors have largely been informed by social disorganization theory. This represents considerable progress, but the community context also includes many ecological factors yet to be considered by studies examining family violence, and as such, successful neighborhood interventions have been l...
Source: Social Science Research - February 16, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Does a rising tide lift all boats? Liberalization and real incomes in advanced industrial societies
Publication date: Available online 1 February 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Roy Kwon, Brianna SalcidoAbstractMany scholars argue that liberalization increases both economic growth and income inequality in developed economies. However, there is limited research on how liberal economic policies shape the earnings of different income groups in the national economy. The current study thus attempts to fill this gap in the literature by examining a panel dataset of 15 advanced industrial societies during the years 1970–2010. According to the results, long-run measures of liberalization increase the incomes of t...
Source: Social Science Research - February 2, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
How is gentrification associated with changes in the academic performance of neighborhood schools?
Publication date: Available online 25 January 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Michael S. Barton, Isaiah F.A. CohenAbstractCity governments have increasingly looked to urban development strategies such as gentrification to address social problems, including low academic performance in grade schools. Several studies have discussed changes in neighborhood schools associated with gentrification, but the only study to examine this question with a large sample of schools found gentrification was not associated with school level performance on standardized assessments. The current study contributes to this research ...
Source: Social Science Research - January 26, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
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Publication date: February 2019Source: Social Science Research, Volume 78Author(s): (Source: Social Science Research)
Source: Social Science Research - January 20, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
How structural adjustment programs affect inequality: A disaggregated analysis of IMF conditionality, 1980–2014
This article highlights an important yet insufficiently understood international-level determinant of inequality in the developing world: structural adjustment programs by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Studying a panel of 135 countries for the period 1980 to 2014, we examine income inequality using multivariate regression analysis corrected for non-random selection into both IMF programs and associated policy reforms (known as ‘conditionality’). We find that, overall, policy reforms mandated by the IMF increase income inequality in borrowing countries. We also test specific pathways linking IMF programs to ine...
Source: Social Science Research - January 16, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The Goldilocks effect: Convergence in national income distributions, 1990–2015
Publication date: Available online 14 January 2019Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Rob ClarkAbstractRecent work shows that national income distributions are converging, with stratified nations becoming more equal and egalitarian countries becoming more unequal. I replicate this finding using more recent data from multiple sources, drawing from 3006 observations across 152 countries from the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIID) and 238 observations across 46 countries from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) during the 1990–2015 period. I find that a country's initial Gini is negatively related to ...
Source: Social Science Research - January 16, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Support of workplace diversity policies: The role of race, gender, and beliefs about inequality
In this study, we analyze data from a survey experiment designed to assess public opinion about a range of workplace diversity policies. We examine how support for these policies among employed respondents varies by race, gender, and by the targeted population (i.e. whether the policies aim to improve the workplace representation of women or racial minorities). Using OLS regression models to analyze a diverse sample of employed persons participating in the survey, we find that women, blacks, and Latina/os are more supportive of diversity policies than men and whites, and a substantial portion of these gender/race differenc...
Source: Social Science Research - January 16, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Living in skipped generation households and happiness among middle-aged and older grandparents in China
This study examines whether living in skipped-generation households (SGHs) is prospectively linked to happiness among middle-aged and older grandparents in China and explores the moderating effects of age, gender, education, income and rural-urban status on this link. The analyses use the two most recent waves of data (collected in 2012 and 2014) from the China Family Panel Studies. The outcome is a continuous, single-item happiness scale composed of data taken from the latter wave, while the key predictor is a categorical measurement of the respondents’ living arrangements in 2012. The analyses use ordinary least square...
Source: Social Science Research - January 12, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The third shift: Multiple job holding and the incarceration of women's partners
Publication date: Available online 28 December 2018Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Angela BrunsAbstractA large body of research documents the sensitivity of women's employment to changing family circumstances, but we know little about the relationship between partner incarceration—a common family transition in the lives of disadvantaged women—and employment. Despite reasons to suspect that changes in resources associated with incarceration have consequences for the employment of family members, previous research suggests that partner incarceration does not influence the number of hours women work at their mai...
Source: Social Science Research - December 28, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Corrigendum to “Does community social embeddedness promote generalized trust? An experimental test of the spillover effect” [Soc. Sci. Res. 73 126–145]
Publication date: Available online 26 December 2018Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Sergio Lo Iacono (Source: Social Science Research)
Source: Social Science Research - December 27, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Racial and gender trends and trajectories in access to managerial jobs
Publication date: Available online 27 December 2018Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Safi Shams, Donald Tomaskovic-DeveyAbstractThe study of temporal dynamics is essential to the advance of social science. In the study of inequality, preliminary to explaining patterns in gaps between groups is the prior task of detecting those patterns. Developing a multiple latent trajectory strategy, this paper proposes an inductive approach to the detection of inequality trends. Investigating managerial representation for Black men, Black women, White women and White men in a very large panel sample of private sector workplaces,...
Source: Social Science Research - December 27, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Forecasting homicide in the red stick: Risk terrain modeling and the spatial influence of urban blight on lethal violence in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Publication date: Available online 24 December 2018Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Matthew Valasik, Elizabeth E. Brault, Stephen MartinezAbstractIncorporating features of the built environment, risk terrain modeling (RTM), is used to predict future criminal events in micro-units (i.e., city blocks). The current study examines the application of RTM to forecast homicide in the capital city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana while including a novel environmental risk factor, blighted properties. Based upon the extant literature and knowledge of the city, eighteen environmental risk factors are expected to spatially influenc...
Source: Social Science Research - December 24, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Social closure, school socioeconomic composition, and inequality in college enrollments
Publication date: Available online 22 December 2018Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Joshua Klugman, Jennifer C. LeeAbstractWe study associations between secondary school socioeconomic composition and college destinations using the Education Longitudinal Study, and whether the association between school SES and type of college enrollment varies by student socioeconomic background. We also examine nonlinearities in these associations, seeking to understand if avoiding poor secondary schools or seeking out affluent secondary schools drives the positive associations between socioeconomic composition and college destin...
Source: Social Science Research - December 22, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Solidarity through punishment: An experiment on the merits of centralized enforcement in generalized exchange
Publication date: Available online 10 December 2018Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Georg KanitsarAbstractSolidarity and punishment are both central to maintaining social order, but their interaction remains poorly understood. A number of studies report that punishment undermines solidarity in domains of generalized exchange, whereas other studies find that punishment furthers norm-compliant behavior and thereby promotes solidarity in the realm of public goods. Using a laboratory experiment, this study is the first to directly compare the effect of centralized punishment on solidarity between generalized exchange ...
Source: Social Science Research - December 20, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
College as equalizer? Testing the selectivity hypothesis
Publication date: Available online 12 December 2018Source: Social Science ResearchAuthor(s): Kristian Bernt KarlsonAbstractStratification research shows that occupational origins and destinations are weakly associated among individuals holding a college degree. The finding is taken to support the hypothesis that college equalizes opportunities and promotes social mobility. I test the competing hypothesis that the high level of social mobility reported for college degree holders results from the selectivity of this group. To control for selectivity, I reweigh a sample of college degree holders by the inverse probability of ...
Source: Social Science Research - December 18, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
