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{"title":"Analysis of crime around a low-barrier, rotating homeless shelter","authors":"Jennifer Wilking ,&nbsp;Greg Madonia ,&nbsp;Peter Hansen","doi":"10.1016/j.seps.2025.102173","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.seps.2025.102173","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Concerns about crime often motivate local opposition to homeless services, such as shelters with low barriers to entry. To understand whether this central tenet of “not in my back yard” (NIMBY) opposition to low-barrier homeless shelters is supported empirically, researchers leveraged the natural variation associated with the operation of a seasonal, low-barrier shelter. Specifically, for three months each winter, an emergency shelter rotates to a different host location, often a church, each week. The shelter hosts 50–60 unhoused community members each night and is considered low-barrier as there are very few restrictions to entry, such as sobriety or pet ownership. To understand whether crime increased in the vicinity of the shelter host, the authors examined both arrest records and calls for service over a two-to-three-year period, for each of the 15 shelter sites. Using fixed effects Poisson and Negative Binomial regressions, we consistently find that arrests and calls for service do not significantly increase or decrease around hosts of the emergency, low-barrier homeless shelter. This finding contrasts with much of the literature on homelessness and crime, and suggests additional studies are needed that explore shelter specific factors. This study also has policy implications, as concerns about crime often motivate local opposition to the siting of homeless shelters in neighborhoods.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":22033,"journal":{"name":"Socio-economic Planning Sciences","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 102173"},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143444746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Exploring social, economic, and ecological drivers of human well-being in the Qinling Mountains, China","authors":"Chenlu Li ,&nbsp;Qian Wang ,&nbsp;Wen Xiang ,&nbsp;Huixia Wang ,&nbsp;Zuoqiang Yuan ,&nbsp;Fei Yu ,&nbsp;Wenfang Xie","doi":"10.1016/j.seps.2025.102176","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.seps.2025.102176","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Understanding the effects of different factors on human well-being (HWB) is essential for achieving sustainable development. Recent related studies have mainly focused on the effects of socioeconomic or ecological environmental factors on HWB, while less effort has been devoted to quantitatively assessing the long-term effects of multiple variables on HWB. In this study, we applied a spatial regression model to data representing 19 social, economic, and ecological environmental variables to characterize the spatial pattern of the county-level HWB in the Qinling Region. First, we quantified the HWB in 2000, 2010 and 2020, and then, we analyzed its spatial heterogeneity in the Qinling Region. Correlation analysis, multicollinearity test, and ordinary least squares (OLS) analysis were used to identify three and four key factors in 2000 and 2020, respectively. Finally, the performances of the OLS, geographically-weighted regression (GWR), and multi-scale geographically weighted regression (MGWR) methods were compared, and it was found that the MGWR achieved the best overall performance. The model results indicated that the significant factors in 2000 included the disposable income of rural households, the number of health profession technicians, and the average annual temperature; those in 2020 included the disposable income of urban households, the number of beds in medical and health institutions, and the average annual precipitation. Economic factors had the strongest coefficient of influence, and the western Qinling Region was the most vulnerable. Selecting impact factors from multiple dimensions and conducting multi-model comparisons can help improve the reliability of our results. The results of this study provide a scientific reference for improving human well-being and for achieving sustainable development in the Qinlinig Region.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":22033,"journal":{"name":"Socio-economic Planning Sciences","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 102176"},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143386966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Demand information disclosure in fresh produce supply chain considering competition between geographical indication and local suppliers","authors":"Zhenjiang Chen ,&nbsp;Bin Dan ,&nbsp;Ting Lei ,&nbsp;Songxuan Ma","doi":"10.1016/j.seps.2025.102177","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.seps.2025.102177","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>When geographical indication fresh produce (GIFP) enters a distant market, demand uncertainty complicates the operational decisions for both the GIFP supplier (GS) and the local fresh produce supplier (LS), whereas the retailer disclosing demand information helps suppliers make optimal decisions. This study aims to explore the impacts of information disclosure on the retailer, GS, and LS and study the information disclosure strategy in the fresh produce supply chain (FPSC). We construct a multistage game model to investigate the retailer's optimal information disclosure decisions and demonstrate the validity of the results through a case study. Furthermore, we develop information contracts to prompt information collaboration in the FPSC. The results show that both the GS and the LS are willing to receive information, whereas the retailer chooses to disclose it voluntarily only when the freshness elasticity is not too low. Moreover, with the improvement in freshness elasticity, the retailer should first disclose to the GS and then to both the GS and LS and finally shift back to the GS. The influences of information disclosure on the performance of the supply chain are relevant to both the freshness elasticity and the quality advantage of the GIFP. Additionally, we identify three scenarios where supply chain performance can be improved by adjusting the retailer's disclosure strategy and propose corresponding contracts on the basis of information fees. This study provides actionable strategies for FPSC stakeholders.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":22033,"journal":{"name":"Socio-economic Planning Sciences","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 102177"},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143420187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The local effects and neighborhood effects of high-speed railway on urban entrepreneurial vitality: Evidence from China","authors":"Wei Jiang ,&nbsp;Nana Jiang ,&nbsp;Ke-Liang Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.seps.2025.102172","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.seps.2025.102172","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Using the spatial difference-in-differences (SDID) model, This paper quantitatively investigates the local effects and neighborhood effects of High-speed railway (HSR) on urban entrepreneurial vitality based on the balanced panel data of China's 277 prefecture-level cities between 2003 and 2019 with HSR opening as a quasi-natural experiment. The findings indicate that: (1) HSR not only enhances entrepreneurial activity in local cities but also boosts entrepreneurial activity in neighboring cities. This conclusion is supported by a series of robustness tests. (2) The neighborhood effects of HSR on urban entrepreneurial activity have a boundary of 600 km, meaning that the spatial spillover effect of HSR dissipates at a distance of 600 km. (3) The local effects and neighborhood effects of HSR on entrepreneurial vitality are more pronounced in core cities, cities with higher levels of innovation, cities with superior traditional transportation infrastructure conditions, and cities with a wider variety of cultural backgrounds. (4) HSR can effectively promote urban entrepreneurial vitality by accelerating talent mobility and alleviating financial constraints. The above conclusions can be extremely beneficial in assisting China and other emerging countries develop concrete proposals for HSR construction that will boost urban entrepreneurial vitality.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":22033,"journal":{"name":"Socio-economic Planning Sciences","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 102172"},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143378636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Optimizing training efficiency amid postgraduate enrollment expansion: A new parallel network DEA allocation model","authors":"Jiqiang Zhao ,&nbsp;Lijun Cheng ,&nbsp;Xianhua Wu ,&nbsp;Lei Zhao","doi":"10.1016/j.seps.2025.102167","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.seps.2025.102167","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Against the backdrop of the continuous expansion of postgraduate enrollment in China, ensuring the quality of postgraduate education has become a long-term focus of concern for the entire society. Currently, the allocation model of postgraduate enrollment quotas among Chinese universities and within universities has not formed an effective competitive mechanism, making it difficult to reflect quality orientation and improve training efficiency. Therefore, a new parallel network data envelopment analysis (DEA) enrollment quotas allocation model based on shared investment is proposed to achieve efficiency and fairness. An empirical analysis is conducted using the allocation of enrollment quotas for professional degree postgraduates at a university in Shanghai as an example. The study shows that (1) the existing allocation schemes only follow a single high average principle, which neglects allocation efficiency. Through optimization, the allocation efficiency has been improved from 0.76 to 1. (2) When the subjective stage weight coefficient <span><math><mrow><msub><mi>γ</mi><mn>1</mn></msub></mrow></math></span> = 0.9, the Gini coefficient of the allocation scheme is the lowest, which is the optimal allocation scheme under the condition of efficiency priority. (3) When the coefficient of the subjective efficiency stage and the input-oriented weight coefficient within the subjective efficiency stage change by 11 % and 40 %, respectively, there is no significant difference between the test and control groups in the allocation results (P &gt; 0.05), and the Pearson correlation coefficient (R²) is 0.96. Therefore, this allocation model demonstrates good stability and can be applied to the allocation of enrollment quotas among different universities and other types of postgraduates.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":22033,"journal":{"name":"Socio-economic Planning Sciences","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 102167"},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143377315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A hybrid decision support system for transport policy selection: A case study on Russia's Northern Sea route in Artic region","authors":"Galip Cihan Yalçın ,&nbsp;Elif Gürdal Limon ,&nbsp;Karahan Kara ,&nbsp;Onur Limon ,&nbsp;Pınar Gürol ,&nbsp;Muhammet Deveci ,&nbsp;Özgür Demirayak ,&nbsp;Hana Tomášková","doi":"10.1016/j.seps.2025.102171","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.seps.2025.102171","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The selection of transport policies by countries is critical both for international relations and for the implementation of effective and sustainable transport practices. Countries consider numerous parameters when deciding on transport policies. This study aims to develop a Decision Support System (DSS) to assist countries in selecting transport policies and to demonstrate its applicability. The primary motivation of the research is to identify transport policies for Russia's Arctic region and to determine the best alternative policy based on expert evaluations. For this purpose, the IF-SIWEC-ARLON (<em>Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets - Simple Weight Calculation - Alternative Ranking Using Two-Step Logarithmic Normalization</em>) hybrid method was developed as a DSS in this study. To implement this hybrid method, a decision model incorporating experts, criteria, and transport policies was first established. The contribution levels of experts to the decision-making process were calculated using IF sets. Next, the criteria weights were determined using the IF-SIWEC approach. Finally, the ranking of transport policies was carried out using the IF-ARLON method. An algorithm representing the application of this hybrid method was developed and applied to a case study focusing on Russia's transport policy selection process of Northern Sea Route (NSR) in the Arctic region. The results supported the successful application of the IF-SIWEC-ARLON hybrid method. Its robustness was tested through sensitivity analysis scenarios, while the consistency of the findings was verified via comparative analyses. The study concluded that the best transport policy for Russia's Arctic region is \"Improved regulatory control with strategic international partnerships\", with the most influential criterion in the decision process identified as \"<em>State interests, security, and sovereignty</em>.\".</div></div>","PeriodicalId":22033,"journal":{"name":"Socio-economic Planning Sciences","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 102171"},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143377316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"San Francisco Bay area community cohesion and resilience: Two case studies","authors":"Alexander Gilgur,&nbsp;Jose Emmanuel Ramirez-Marquez","doi":"10.1016/j.seps.2025.102157","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.seps.2025.102157","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this submission, the authors develop an innovative approach to measuring community resilience by mathematical analysis of its members’ social-media microblogs. The approach involves applying machine-learning and graph-analytic techniques to infer social cohesion, which is later used as the state variable by which resilience is measured. We analyze community cohesion and its dynamics during two natural disasters that hit San Francisco Bay Area with an interval of only two years - the wildfires of 2020 and the torrential rainstorms during the water year of 2022/23.</div><div>The backdrop of the wildfires was characterized by the first year of the COVID pandemic, with all the uncertainty, deficit of personal protective equipment (PPE), loss of jobs, social-justice protests, and Presidential elections. For the rainstorms, the backdrop consisted of the Omicron variant of COVID, structural damage due to heavy rains and winds, and midterm elections. Bay Area economy too was in a different state during the wildfires than it was during the rainstorms. In this submission, we measure the community resilience based on the dynamics of Bay Area recovering from these events. We propose novel metrics for community cohesion and investigate the mechanisms by which emotions, local economy, weather, and air quality affects community cohesion. We also explore whether community resilience is influenced by these mechanisms.</div><div>Specifically, we analyze the mediating role played by emotions in the community cohesion and resilience processes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":22033,"journal":{"name":"Socio-economic Planning Sciences","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 102157"},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143438012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Performance evaluation of Chinese and foreign property insurance companies considering negative data: Based on the dynamic two-stage IBP-SBM model","authors":"Peide Liu ,&nbsp;Huizhi Sun ,&nbsp;Hongxue Xu","doi":"10.1016/j.seps.2025.102169","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.seps.2025.102169","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the insurance industry, performance evaluation is a crucial instrument for resource management, allocation, and industry development. Negative data, however, have received little attention in the present evaluation system and are considered an undesirable consequence of research evaluation. To fill this gap, this paper establishes an evaluation indicator system that includes negative data and proposes the dynamic two-stage improved base point slacks-based measure (IBP-SBM) model for handling negative data. The model fully considers the internal structure of the production process and the measurement of intermediate products, and obtains the system efficiency and stage efficiency in two steps. In order to verify the applicability of the model, we evaluate the performance of 48 Chinese and foreign property insurance companies over the period from 2018 to 2020 through the proposed model. The empirical results indicate that variations in the investment stage are primarily responsible for shifts in the overall efficiency of the property insurance industry. With this method, decision-making is aided by a wealth of information.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":22033,"journal":{"name":"Socio-economic Planning Sciences","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 102169"},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143134745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Deprivation cost theory in humanitarian relief: A literature review and prospects","authors":"Sheng Zhong,&nbsp;Longsheng Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.seps.2025.102168","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.seps.2025.102168","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The concept of deprivation cost, which directly quantifies human suffering, has been extensively applied in humanitarian relief operations across various disaster scenarios. The recent COVID-19 pandemic has introduced a novel context for the study of deprivation cost. The methodologies for applying deprivation cost may vary significantly across different scenarios, indicating a potential correspondence between the application methods and specific scenarios. To advance the development of deprivation cost theory and its application to biological disasters, this study systematically reviews 58 studies sourced from the Scopus and WoS databases, synthesizing diverse insights contributed by existing research on deprivation cost modeling methodologies. Drawing on various scenarios, the study examines the selections related to the characteristics of deprivation cost, functional forms, objective functions, assumptions, and calculation methods. Upon constructing the theoretical and applied framework, the study investigates the specific characteristics of deprivation cost research in biological disasters, concluding with suggestions for future research directions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":22033,"journal":{"name":"Socio-economic Planning Sciences","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 102168"},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143134744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Managing production capacity reserves for emergency supplies: A public-private option contract model with a loss-averse supplier","authors":"Ning Yu ,&nbsp;Jun Tian ,&nbsp;Gengzhong Feng ,&nbsp;Yang Liu ,&nbsp;Mohammad Moshtari","doi":"10.1016/j.seps.2025.102164","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.seps.2025.102164","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The use of contracts to formalize public-private framework agreements (FAs) for emergency supplies reserves has attracted significant attention. Humanitarian decision-makers (HDMs) are increasingly focused on production capacity reserves besides physical emergency stockpiles. Yet, suppliers cooperating with the HDMs often exhibit diverse behavioral preferences, which may cause their decisions to deviate from perfect rational decision-making. To bridge this gap, this paper considers a loss-averse supplier and builds a model of production capacity reserves, wherein production capacity can be capable of being swiftly converted into tangible products to meet urgent demands. The authority's order quantity of emergency options is determined, as is the supplier's reserve amount of production capacity. A comparative analysis reveals that the loss-averse supplier may exhibit two reservation biases compared to a risk-neutral body, i.e., over- and under-stocking of production capacity. When the aspiration level of unit profit drops below zero, overstocking gradually transitions to understocking as the authority's regular inventory level of emergency supplies lowers. Moreover, we uncover the relationship between the unit cost of booking options and the price of emergency purchases such that the supplier's reserve amount of production capacity matches the authority's order decision. Meanwhile, two specific conditions under which the humanitarian supply chain could achieve coordination are presented. Finally, there exists an optimal reservation price that is agreed on by all humanitarian members and benefits them. Overall, exploring the effects of individual preferences on the stockpiling of emergency production capacity provides significant insights for effectively managing emergency production capacity reserves, maintaining the coordination of the humanitarian system, and screening qualified suppliers.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":22033,"journal":{"name":"Socio-economic Planning Sciences","volume":"98 ","pages":"Article 102164"},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143134741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}