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{"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}

{"title":"Reciprocity and job mobility: The effect of effort-reward imbalance in the employer-employee relationship on turnover intentions and actual job changes","authors":"Sebastian Prechsl","doi":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103133","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103133","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Numerous studies illustrate that a lack of reciprocity between effort and reward in the employer-employee relationship produces negative effects on employees' health and well-being. This might motivate employees to change jobs as a consequence. Based on German panel data with 16,243 observations from 4,641 employees, I analyze the effect of effort-reward imbalance (ERI) on turnover intentions and actual job changes and whether health-threatening ERI exposure affects the realization of job changes. The results indicate more frequent doctor visits, lower job satisfaction, higher turnover intentions, and higher job change probabilities when employees’ efforts in relation to rewards increase. The ERI effects on turnover intentions and job changes are both mediated through job satisfaction. Finally, I find no evidence that ERI exposure moderates the relationship between turnover intentions and actual job changes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48338,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Research","volume":"127 ","pages":"Article 103133"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143094226","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":"Well-being scarring effects of college non-completion","authors":"Martin Neugebauer ,&nbsp;Michael Becker ,&nbsp;Lilly-Marlen Bihler ,&nbsp;Jenny Wagner","doi":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103138","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103138","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Little is known about the socio-emotional consequences of dropping out of college. Here, we investigate the effects of college non-completion on a range of markers for general psychological well-being (self-esteem, life satisfaction, and fear of failure) as well as health-related well-being (self-rated general health and clinical depressive symptoms). Based on rich panel data from Germany in combination with entropy balancing, we find that by around age 31, non-completers fared worse compared to college graduates as well as non-college goers, i.e. students who were eligible to enter college but decided against it. About 18 years after leaving college, when non-completers were aged 40, their psychological and health-related well-being was still lower than that of graduates, while non-completers and non-goers did not differ significantly regarding their well-being. We conclude that adapting to educational discontinuation is difficult and discuss potential policy measures to protect individuals from long-term adverse consequences.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48338,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Research","volume":"127 ","pages":"Article 103138"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143093905","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":"Moral disagreement in everyday life: An inductive framework for capturing ‘moral order’","authors":"Yongren Shi,&nbsp;Regan Smock,&nbsp;Steven Hitlin","doi":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103139","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103139","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The study of morality outside of sociology can be improved, we demonstrate, with greater attention paid to aspects of situated interaction beyond abstract moral principles. We propose an inductive framework that focuses on the bottom-up, situationally framed aspects underlying moral disputes, including types of situational setting, contextual cues, and roles and relationships of involved parties. In clear-cut cases like murder, consensus on right or wrong emerges easily, influenced by either intentions or consequences. However, in complex moral disputes, situational conditions can significantly influence the valence and the degree of consensus of collective evaluation of morality. Drawing on over a million personal narratives from the online forum “Am I The Asshole?” (AITA), we present empirical analyses that build toward a “thick” understanding of moral evaluation (Abend, 2011). Our analyses find great variation in moral disagreements across settings, with those possessing strong situational norms reporting low disagreement about moral culpability; contextual cues lead to predictably divergent moral evaluations; and power disparities between involved parties resulting in blame more commonly assigned to those in power. We discuss the implications of the bottom-up framework for empirical research in sociology of morality.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48338,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Research","volume":"127 ","pages":"Article 103139"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143094222","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":"Adolescent gender beliefs in India: Does mothers’ empowerment matter?","authors":"Hope Xu Yan ,&nbsp;Feinian Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103132","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103132","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Abundant studies have documented the positive impact of mothers' empowerment on children's health and education in the Global South, but little is known about how maternal empowerment shapes children's gender beliefs. Using data from the India Human Development Survey, this study examines the relationship between mothers' empowerment and adolescent children's gender beliefs in India. Recognizing the multidimensionality of women's empowerment, we conduct latent class analysis to identify a six-class empowerment typology based on mothers' education, employment, decision-making power at home, mobility outside the home, and memberships in women's organizations. The results reveal unevenness in different dimensions of mothers' empowerment. Maternal empowerment's association with egalitarian gender beliefs is salient among adolescent girls, but not boys. Adolescent girls with mothers labeled as <em>proactive workers</em> in our empowerment typology hold the most egalitarian gender beliefs, whereas <em>low agency</em> and <em>underprivileged worker</em> mothers' daughters are the least egalitarian. By illustrating the complex interplay between multiple dimensions of maternal empowerment and children's gender beliefs in India, this study advances the empirical and theoretical understanding of women's empowerment and the effects of mothers' behaviors on children's gender beliefs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48338,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Research","volume":"127 ","pages":"Article 103132"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143081623","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":"Race, parents, and schools: Understanding how parental racial socialization operates within schools as racialized organizations","authors":"Maura R. Kraemer","doi":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103137","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103137","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study brings together scholarship on racial socialization and racialized organizations to explore how parental racial socialization operates in schools. Using student-level data from the Maryland Adolescent Development In Context Study and school-level data from the National Center for Education Statistics and the Civil Rights Data Collection, I investigate the extent to which engagement in parental racial socialization affects the academic outcomes and educational experiences of Black and White high school students. I find parental racial socialization has positive impacts on students' GPAs for Black students and on students' probability of liking school for both Black and White students. Additionally, I evaluate students' perceptions of school organizational practices as racialized and find negative impacts on academic outcomes and educational experiences for all students. Finally, I find a significant interaction between parental racial socialization and perceived racialized organizational practices of schools, highlighting the moderating impact of parental racial socialization on Black students’ GPAs. Overall, findings suggest that academic outcomes and educational experiences are both a function of parental racial socialization and the perceived racialized organizational practices of schools. Moreover, within schools as racialized organizations, the variation in findings suggest parental racial socialization serves as an <em>academic</em> tool for Black students and a <em>social</em> tool for White students.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48338,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Research","volume":"127 ","pages":"Article 103137"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143094227","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":"Men's decline and rising support for hostile sexism: A survey experiment from South Korea","authors":"Joeun Kim","doi":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103134","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103134","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Hostile sexism, characterized by derogatory views of women as incompetent and manipulative, is gaining recognition as a significant predictor of social and political trends in high-income countries. This article proposes that men's endorsement of hostile sexism is partially explained by the social trends that signal a loss of traditional male privileges, such as marriage or employment opportunities. To test this argument, 1028 Korean men were randomly allocated into three groups: the first received no information, the second was informed of an increase in the proportion of men who never marry, and the third was informed about rising unemployment rates. Participants were then asked to share their views on women, men, and society. In the general sample, support for hostile sexism was not higher among those exposed to these threats compared to the control group. However, among men who reported downward mobility, the results differed significantly. Those presented with scenarios of declining marriage and job opportunities exhibited much higher support for hostile sexism than their counterparts in the control condition. Additionally, within this group of downwardly mobile men, those who received information specifically about declining marriage prospects also reported greater hostility toward other men. Interestingly, despite this increase in gender-specific hostility, these men did not display more negative views toward Korean society in general. In summary, the study shed light on how men's grievances regarding the erosion of traditional privileges, particularly in marriage, explain hostile attitudes towards both women and men. Importantly, it underscores the interaction of male entitlement and diminishing economic mobility as a fertile ground for hostile sexism.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48338,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Research","volume":"127 ","pages":"Article 103134"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143094225","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}