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{"title":"Social infrastructure and the prevalence of deaths of despair: The role of concentrated disadvantage","authors":"Seulki Kim","doi":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103128","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103128","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study aims to understand the associations between social infrastructure and deaths of despair (DoD), with special attention to the role of concentrated disadvantage. I assembled a county-level dataset in the United States from various sources. A series of multilevel regression results indicate that (1) social infrastructure is associated with DoD; a higher density of public institutions (e.g., libraries) and religious organizations are associated with a lower prevalence of DoD; and (3) the associations between social infrastructure and DoD vary by concentrated disadvantage in that the protective effects of social infrastructure are observed only in less disadvantaged countries.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48338,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Research","volume":"126 ","pages":"Article 103128"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143178344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Social contributors to differences in math course attainment among adolescents with and without learning disabilities and ADHD.","authors":"Dara Shifrer, Angela Frederick, Daniel Mackin Freeman, Hannah Sean Ellefritz, Rachel Springer","doi":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103096","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Completing advanced high school math coursework relates to better adulthood outcomes. Our understanding of why youth with learning disabilities (LDs) and/or ADHD have less access to high math course attainment is limited. Using data on around 20,000 adolescents from the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009, results indicate that, regardless of disability status, structural inequities in family social position are more salient for youth's math course attainment than formal disability programming, universal supports, or structural inequities in how students are sorted across schools. Among youth with the same disability status, youth from higher SES families, or whose parents have a STEM degree, have heightened access to high math course attainment even after accounting for prior achievement. Disparities in access to high math course attainment that persist net of controls for both youth with an LD and youth with ADHD present the possibility of disability-related stratification and stigma during high school.</p>","PeriodicalId":48338,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Research","volume":"126 ","pages":"103096"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143257068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Distinctively black names and mechanisms of discrimination: Evidence from the early 20th century","authors":"Catalina Anampa Castro ,&nbsp;John Robert Warren ,&nbsp;Jonas Helgertz","doi":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103136","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103136","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>What were the effects of having a distinctively African American-sounding name on educational attainment, occupation, income, marital status, and longevity in early 20th century America? How did those effects differ for people based on their phenotypical race/ethnicity? The findings of contemporary research have shown racialized names to be related to negative outcomes such as job interview callbacks, birth outcomes, and teacher expectations. Furthermore, previous research has shown that the consequences of race-specific names explain as much as 10% of the historical between-race mortality gap (Cook et al., 2016). Theoretically, we argue, names should have been less of a mechanism for racial discrimination in earlier eras of American history. Using a sibling comparison design and linked administrative records, we hypothesize that there was little racial discrimination based on people's names in early 20th century America. We find that men with more African American-sounding names do no worse (or better) with respect to education, wages, occupation, or longevity than their brothers with less African American-sounding names; this finding holds for white and black men. This does not imply the absence of race-based discrimination in early 20th century America. Instead, it implies that people in this era discriminated based on something other than names and the race implied by those names.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48338,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Research","volume":"126 ","pages":"Article 103136"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143178341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"COVID-19 facial covering during outdoor recreation reflects historical disease prevalence and culture above and beyond governmental measures – A study in 53 countries","authors":"Christoph Randler ,&nbsp;Jukka Jokimäki ,&nbsp;Nadine Kalb ,&nbsp;Maria de Salvo ,&nbsp;Renan de Almeida Barbosa ,&nbsp;Marja-Liisa Kaisanlahti-Jokimäki ,&nbsp;Jo-Szu Tsai ,&nbsp;Raúl Ortiz-Pulido ,&nbsp;Piotr Tryjanowski","doi":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103145","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103145","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The COVID-19 pandemic severely influenced human behavior due to governmental restrictions. In addition to administrative restrictions, other factors, like historical disease prevalence and culture might impact on recent behavior. The parasite stress theory of values and sociality predicts an influence of historical diseases on human culture and may be of important influence on current human behavioral responses towards the pandemic. To address the influence on behavior, we studied mask use in outdoor recreationists (N = 4863) from 53 cultures. Studying outdoor recreationists is advantageous because people have at least some choices over their mask use, and it is less strictly controlled. We hypothesize that pathogen prevalence and cultural values of a society predict mask usage above and beyond the simplistic explanation of the strength of the governmental pandemic-related restrictions. Our results indicate that societal variables, especially individualism, contribute to the mask use during leisure activities, with people from more individualistic societies reporting lesser mask usage. Further, historic pathogen prevalence has a significant influence on mask use, even when controlling for the stringency measures of the government, HDI and population density. Zoonotic disease richness, however, did not receive significance. A mediation model showed that historical pathogen prevalence had an indirect effect on mask use, via the two pathways collectivism-individualism and governmental regulations. The total effect size of pathogen prevalence on mask use was 0.61, and with 0.24 as direct, and 0.37 indirect effects. Our data fit into the parasite stress theory of values and sociality. Our results provide evidence that the governmental decisions and restrictions themselves are influenced by the historical pathogens.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48338,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Research","volume":"127 ","pages":"Article 103145"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143093904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Higher education expansion, economic reform, and the change of college wage premium in urban China (1986–2019): An age-period-cohort analysis","authors":"Wei Xu ,&nbsp;Qi Xu","doi":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103127","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103127","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study utilizes three large-scale survey datasets and multiple APC models to analyze the trends of the college wage premium in urban China across different temporal dimensions. The findings reveal that the economic returns to higher education increase continuously with age. In addition, the period effect also demonstrates an upward trend, which is attributed to the rapid economic modernization and market-oriented economic reform in urban China. Furthermore, the cohort effect declines significantly in cohorts born after 1980, primarily due to the rapid increase in higher education enrollments after the massive university expansion policy in 1999. It is suggested that scholars should focus on age, period, and cohort trends simultaneously and explore their driving forces when studying countries where economic reform and higher education expansion concurrently exert significant effects on the change of economic returns to higher education.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48338,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Research","volume":"126 ","pages":"Article 103127"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143178345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Age discrimination in hiring: Relative importance and additive and multiplicative effects","authors":"Jeevitha Yogachandiran Qvist,&nbsp;Christian Albrekt Larsen","doi":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103135","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103135","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In a preregistered nationwide factorial survey experiment among 5017 Danish employers and 20,068 vignettes, we examined the interplay between applicant age (45–75 years) and other applicant characteristics in hiring discrimination. The experiment enabled us to examine the relative importance of age compared to other forms of hiring discrimination, as well as the additive and multiplicative effects. First, regarding relative importance, our study reveals that discrimination against older applicants outweighs other characteristics and persists regardless of the employer's age. Across all industries and sectors, no other applicant characteristics were found to be statistically significantly more important than age. Second, we identified three multiplicative effects that weaken age discrimination: the employers discriminated less against older applicants in terms of previous unemployment, preference for not working full-time, and being male with a Muslim background. We did not find any multiplicative effects between age and other applicant characteristics that strengthen age discrimination in hiring. Third, after accounting for all multiplicative effects, we found strong additive effects, as applicants who are older and have other disadvantaged characteristics have a likelihood of recruitment that is close to zero.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48338,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Research","volume":"126 ","pages":"Article 103135"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143178342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessing the impact of an increase in the minimum wage on household income and poverty","authors":"José M. Arranz,&nbsp;Carlos García-Serrano","doi":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103143","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103143","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Using repeated cross-section individual and household data and the propensity score difference-in-differences (DID) technique, this article investigates the impact of minimum wage hikes on family income and poverty. To do so, it focuses on the large increase in the minimum wage that occurred in Spain in January 2019 (21.6% in real terms). Our descriptive analysis show that minimum wage earners are more concentrated in households with lower incomes. i.e. in the bottom third of the family income distribution. Moreover, the estimate results provide evidence that the rise in the minimum wage contributed to a greater increase in the income level and to a higher probability of being out of monetary poverty of households with minimum wage earners compared to other households. Our results are robust to the use of different DID methods.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48338,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Research","volume":"127 ","pages":"Article 103143"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143094224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Social inequalities in green exposure in small- and medium-sized U.S. cities: A mobility-based approach","authors":"Kee Moon Jang ,&nbsp;Junghwan Kim","doi":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103142","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103142","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Green space exposure has been considered essential for people's physical and mental health. Researchers have investigated uneven exposure to green space based on individuals' home locations, which may exacerbate health disparities. A mobility-based approach enables a more accurate assessment of green exposure in daily activity patterns. In addition, social inequalities may vary by geographical context and should be examined to address environmental justice concerns.</div></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><div>Study objectives are twofold: to address methodological challenges in exposure assessment studies through mobility-based assessment of green exposure; and to explore whether mobility-based approach can better assess green exposure inequality than home-based measurement.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>We selected 25 small- and medium-sized U.S. cities as study sites, from which street-view images were collected along 50,823 walk-based commute trajectories. We applied a semantic segmentation technique to street-view images to estimate individual home- and mobility-based green exposure levels.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Results revealed that mobility-based green exposure significantly differs from home-based green exposure. Globally, wealthier individuals and non-minority groups experience significantly greater exposure to green space through both home- and mobility-based approaches compared to their counterparts. Locally, we found more nuanced pictures of green space inequalities when compared at the county level, suggesting locally varying relationships.</div></div><div><h3>Significance</h3><div>This study suggests empirical evidence on how mobility-based measurements could help us assess inequality problems in exposure to urban green elements.</div></div><div><h3>Impact</h3><div>Creating urban green corridors that comply with locally varying contexts can contribute to achieving equitable provision of green infrastructure for low-income and racially disadvantaged populations who have undesirable green exposure in their residential locations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48338,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Research","volume":"127 ","pages":"Article 103142"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143094223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"More to give in marriage? County-level sex ratios and marriage payments in China","authors":"Shichao Du","doi":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103141","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103141","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Marriage payment is one of the most pervasive marital conventions in human history. However, how the local marriage market structure influences this marital practice is less known. Moreover, previous research studies different types of marriage payment (i.e., bride price, dowry, and parental economic support) separately. This study juxtaposes these types of marriage payments and examines the associations between county-level sex ratios and each of them in China. By linking survey data to census data, this study unravels that the associations between marriage payments and local sex ratios are gender-specific and cohort-dependent. In the 1995–2004 marriage cohort, the bride price (as well as parental support in the bride price) increases with the local sex ratio, aligned with the demographic-opportunity perspective. However, the dowry does not change as predicted by the demographic-opportunity perspective. Rather, it changes in parallel with the bride price. In the 2005–2014 marriage cohort, neither the bride price nor the dowry is associated with the local sex ratio. The findings reveal both the economic and the symbolic functions of marriage payments, whose relative importance varies across gender and time.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48338,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Research","volume":"127 ","pages":"Article 103141"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143094220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Corrigendum to “Same degrees, different outcomes? Fields of study choices and gender wage inequality in Finland and Germany” [Soc. Sci. Res. 122 (2024) 103029]","authors":"Anna Erika Hägglund","doi":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103140","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103140","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48338,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Research","volume":"127 ","pages":"Article 103140"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143094221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}