Economic Factors That Influence Geographic Differentials in the Percentage of Families Who Own Dogs: An Exploratory Empirical Study for the United States

IF 1 4区经济学 Q3 ECONOMICS

American Journal of Economics and Sociology Pub Date : 2025-06-03 DOI:10.1111/ajes.12642

Richard J. Cebula, Gigi M. Alexander, Richard C. Hollingsworth

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Abstract

This exploratory empirical study seeks to identify factors that influence interstate differentials in the percentage of families that provide a home for one or more dogs. Using PLS estimation for the contiguous 48 states over the period 2008–2016, several conclusions are obtained. These include the following: the percentage of family units with one or more dogs is found to be an increasing function of the percentage of the population that owns its own home, warmer climate, and the percent of the population without a high school diploma. In addition, there are three other findings. Namely, the percentage of family units consisting of one or more dogs is a decreasing function of the overall cost of living, the unemployment rate, and population density.

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影响养狗家庭百分比地理差异的经济因素：美国探索性实证研究

本探索性实证研究旨在确定影响州际差异的因素，为一只或多只狗提供家庭的百分比。利用2008-2016年期间连续48个州的PLS估计，得到了几个结论。其中包括：拥有一只或多只狗的家庭单位的比例被发现是拥有自己的家的人口比例、更温暖的气候和没有高中文凭的人口比例的函数。此外，还有其他三个发现。也就是说，由一只或多只狗组成的家庭单位的百分比是生活总成本、失业率和人口密度的递减函数。

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American Journal of Economics and Sociology Multiple-

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1.90

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12.50%

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期刊介绍： The American Journal of Economics and Sociology (AJES) was founded in 1941, with support from the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, to encourage the development of transdisciplinary solutions to social problems. In the introduction to the first issue, John Dewey observed that “the hostile state of the world and the intellectual division that has been built up in so-called ‘social science,’ are … reflections and expressions of the same fundamental causes.” Dewey commended this journal for its intention to promote “synthesis in the social field.” Dewey wrote those words almost six decades after the social science associations split off from the American Historical Association in pursuit of value-free knowledge derived from specialized disciplines. Since he wrote them, academic or disciplinary specialization has become even more pronounced. Multi-disciplinary work is superficially extolled in major universities, but practices and incentives still favor highly specialized work. The result is that academia has become a bastion of analytic excellence, breaking phenomena into components for intensive investigation, but it contributes little synthetic or holistic understanding that can aid society in finding solutions to contemporary problems. Analytic work remains important, but in response to the current lop-sided emphasis on specialization, the board of AJES has decided to return to its roots by emphasizing a more integrated and practical approach to knowledge.