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{"title":"Do minority inclusive institutions increase electoral support for radical-right parties?","authors":"Taishi Muraoka","doi":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103115","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103115","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>How do minority inclusive institutions that improve minority groups’ political access influence the electoral success of radical-right, anti-minority parties? I explore this question by analyzing the case of Croatia’s national minority councils, which were introduced to enhance ethnic minorities’ political voices at the local level. Using a difference-in-differences design with panel data, I find that the vote shares of radical-right parties became lower, if anything, in municipalities with a minority council. Further, analyzing georeferenced survey data, I show that the introduction of minority councils did not necessarily worsen the ethnic majority’s attitudes toward minority groups. These findings indicate that contrary to the institutional variant of group threat theory, inclusive institutions do not have to trigger electoral backlash among people in the majority. This point has important implications for institution design in multiethnic societies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48338,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Research","volume":"126 ","pages":"Article 103115"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142724006","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":"Educational assortative mating and couples’ linked occupational trajectories in China","authors":"Jian Song,&nbsp;Bo Hu,&nbsp;Yang Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103114","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103114","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Educational assortative mating profoundly influences couples' division of labor; however, we know little about how it shapes couples' paired occupational trajectories. We employed multi-channel sequence analysis to discern types of couples' linked occupational trajectories based on the couple-level data from China Labor-force Dynamics Survey (CLDS), and multinomial logistic models to examine how educational assortative mating is associated with couples' occupational trajectories. For most occupational types, husbands had more advantaged or at least similar occupational trajectories than their wives. Couples in educational hypergamy were likely to have occupational trajectory types with husbands having some advantages; couples in educational hypogamy were likely to have occupational trajectory types with wives having some advantages. The specialization and resource bargaining perspectives provide more powerful explanations than the “doing gender” perspective. Chinese couples tend to choose the occupational arrangement that maximizes the family's economic interests rather than the one that best conforms to gender norms and expectations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48338,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Research","volume":"126 ","pages":"Article 103114"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142723946","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":"Gender bias in evaluating assistant professorship applicants? Evidence from harmonized survey experiments in Germany and Italy","authors":"Klarita Gërxhani ,&nbsp;Nevena Kulic ,&nbsp;Alessandra Rusconi ,&nbsp;Heike Solga","doi":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103113","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103113","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates gender biases in the evaluation of applicants for assistant professorships in Germany and Italy. Drawing on the justification-suppression model of prejudice expression, we explore whether biases against women are expressed, suppressed, or even reversed in the appointment process, considering the different normative gender climates and gender equality strategies in the two countries. Using harmonized factorial survey experiments with professors of economics, political science, and social sciences, we found that women in Germany have an advantage both in perceived qualification for an assistant professorship and in the propensity to receive an interview invitation. In contrast, women in Italy are neither disadvantaged nor advantaged. We also examine whether gender biases exist when there is ambiguity about applicants' academic performance (co-authorship) and career commitment (parental leave). Our results reveal a co-authorship penalty and a parenthood premium in both countries, with no gender differences observed. Our exploratory country comparison suggests that Germany's proactive gender equality policies may be more effective in reducing the gender gap in assistant professor appointments compared to Italy's gender-neutral approach, by favoring equally qualified female applicants.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48338,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Research","volume":"126 ","pages":"Article 103113"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142705718","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":"Impact of layoffs on mortality and physical health in transitional China 1989–2015","authors":"Qian Song ,&nbsp;Emily Lim ,&nbsp;Esther Friedman ,&nbsp;James P. Smith","doi":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103110","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103110","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines the long-term health impacts of massive layoffs from State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) in transitional China, a period characterized by significant economic, cultural, and policy transformation. Utilizing the China Health and Nutrition Survey data from 1989 to 2014, we employ a life course framework to analyze how macro and interpersonal contexts influence mortality and physical health following job loss. Our analysis reveals that, despite short-term income disruptions and persistent income volatility, laid-off workers restored income and gained improved access to various types of health insurance over two decades. In the medium term, we observed increased mortality and cardiovascular diseases, which subsided after a decade. Notably, hypertension emerged as an outcome only after a decade of job loss. While the expansion of urban health insurance schemes contributed to reducing long-term mortality risks, the impact on other health outcomes was marginal. Contrary to patterns observed in Western developed countries, economic mechanisms in transitional China overall played only a minor role in the adverse effects on physical health outcomes. These findings highlight the importance of considering the temporal dynamics and the heterogeneity of impacts across evolving socio-cultural and policy contexts. We also discuss the social-psychological mechanisms that operate within the rich context of transitional China over several decades.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48338,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Research","volume":"125 ","pages":"Article 103110"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142664009","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":"Political and educational dynamics behind the Evangelicals’ stance against mask mandates during COVID-19 in the U.S.","authors":"Junhe Yang ,&nbsp;Zack W. Almquist ,&nbsp;James H. Jones","doi":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103100","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103100","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates the mediation effect of conservative political ideology on the relationship between Evangelical identities and attitudes against the mask mandate during COVID-19 in the U.S., using a nationally representative survey administered over three waves from September 2020 to June 2021. We employ a moderated mediation analysis to examine the pathway from Evangelical identity to political conservativeness to anti-mask-mandate attitudes, and the interaction effect between years of education and political ideology. A logistic regression model is used to investigate each path in the mediation analysis. Results suggest that controlling for socio-demographic background, self-identified Evangelical status positively drives resistance to the mask mandate. Additional findings confirm that political orientation is not only an established predictor of the polarized public support of masking, as found in existing studies, but is also a key mechanism by which Evangelical identities positively predict anti-mask-mask attitudes. Finally, a higher level of education is associated with greater political polarization of public opinions on the mask mandate during the pandemic.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48338,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Research","volume":"125 ","pages":"Article 103100"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142664006","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 welfare expansion and political support during economic slowdown: A panel data analysis of China, 2010–2018","authors":"Xue Li ,&nbsp;Bingdao Zheng","doi":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103112","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103112","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>While economic growth is often emphasized as crucial for developing nations to maintain political support, the impact of social welfare provision in such countries remains unclear. This article investigates how social security spending and economic growth affect political support in China, with a focus on citizens’ evaluations of local government performance. Using a dataset that combines five waves of the China Family Panel Studies surveys with city-level socioeconomic measures from 2010 to 2018, we find that, despite the role of economic growth, social security spending significantly encourages political support. The impact of social security expansion is particularly pronounced during periods of economic slowdown and among its primary beneficiaries—rural residents and non-state-sector workers. Moreover, social security spending enhances political support across both disadvantaged and advantaged groups, while economic growth primarily increases the political support of advantaged groups. These findings suggest that social welfare provision can garner broader popular support, especially during economic downturns. Our study contributes to the literature on non-Western political systems by highlighting the importance of social welfare provision in sustaining regime stability.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48338,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Research","volume":"125 ","pages":"Article 103112"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142664008","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":"Punishing “gender deviants”? Women born in the year of the white horse and college selectivity","authors":"Soocheol Cho ,&nbsp;Dohoon Lee","doi":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103111","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103111","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Belief in the Chinese zodiac, a cultural belief widely held in East Asian cultures, posits that people are fated to have different traits according to the zodiac animal attached to their birth year. As a white horse is culturally associated with masculine traits, Korean women born in the White Horse year are presumed to be argumentative, headstrong, and born with “too much” <em>Yin</em> energy. In this study, we analyze a nationally representative sample of Korean college graduates to examine whether and how being born in the White Horse year, thereby being chronically exposed to gender stereotype-violating stigma, affects women's higher educational attainment. Our difference-in-differences models show that White Horse women, on average, entered colleges of lower selectivity than did non-White Horse women, whereas no such disadvantage was attached to White Horse men. The results also suggest that, although the negative impact of the White Horse stigma is more salient for socioeconomically disadvantaged White Horse women than for their advantaged counterparts, the difference between the two groups does not reach statistical significance. We discuss the implications of these findings with emphasis on the role of sheer presumptions about gendered expectations in reproducing social disadvantages for women.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48338,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Research","volume":"125 ","pages":"Article 103111"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142664007","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":"The effects of world society on international poverty, 1990–2018","authors":"Steven A. Mejia","doi":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103090","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103090","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48338,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Research","volume":"125 ","pages":"Article 103090"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142577869","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":"Adult intergenerational proximity and parents’ depressive symptoms: A bidirectional approach","authors":"Lisa Jessee ,&nbsp;Valeria Bordone ,&nbsp;Karsten Hank","doi":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103094","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103094","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>To date, only a few studies have investigated the bidirectional relationship in the intergenerational proximity-health nexus, specifically how geographic proximity affects older parents' depressive symptoms and vice versa. Drawing on eight waves (2004–2018) of the U.S. Health and Retirement Study (n = 17,671), we examine several mechanisms (‘mobilization’, ‘social support’, and ‘social breakdown’) that drive the complex relationship between intergenerational proximity and parental depressive symptoms. Dynamic panel models with fixed effects in a structural equation modeling context provided some weak evidence of a ‘mobilization effect’ (that is, parents', especially fathers', depression triggering greater proximity, including coresidence) and somewhat clearer evidence for a ‘social breakdown effect’ of coresidential transitions on parents' depressive symptoms (particularly among ‘Whites’ and fathers). We found no evidence to support the notion of a ‘social support mechanism’ (predicting that greater proximity or the transition to coresidence would decrease the number of parents' depressive symptoms).</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48338,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Research","volume":"125 ","pages":"Article 103094"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142552889","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":"Adaptive educational expectations: How do parental educational expectations respond to child academic performance in various family contexts?","authors":"Wensong Shen ,&nbsp;Emily Hannum ,&nbsp;Hua-Yu Sebastian Cherng","doi":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103097","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103097","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Parental educational expectations are well-studied in sociology of education and social stratification and mobility, but most literature conceptualizes these expectations as static or considers how they change only at key educational junctures such as educational transitions. Whether parental educational expectations adapt to child academic performance more generally, and what might be the key theoretical components in adaptation, are not well-conceptualized or tested. To address these limitations, we posit and test the concept of adaptive educational expectations. Our concept encompasses three key propositions: <em>adaptability</em> – parental expectations adapt to child academic performance; <em>relative responsiveness</em> – the adaptive response of parental expectations to child performance is larger in magnitude than the responsiveness of child performance to parental expectations; and <em>heterogeneity</em> – the adaptability of parental expectations varies across family contexts. We test the concept using the case of China, the largest education system in the world, with analyses of longitudinal data from the China Education Panel Survey. Findings show that parental expectations are more adaptive to child performance in low-SES families than in high-SES families and in rural areas than in nonrural areas, but there is no difference in adaptability by child gender and sibship size. These findings indicate that the adaptation of educational expectations is more shaped by socioeconomic circumstances than family demographics. Furthermore, the use of this concept reveals a hidden form of educational inequality that prior literature often neglects: compared with high-SES parents, low-SES parents not only hold lower educational expectations but are more likely to decrease their expectations when child academic performance declines, which further reduces their educational involvement. These findings illustrate the relevance of all three features of the adaptive educational expectations concept.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48338,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Research","volume":"125 ","pages":"Article 103097"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142535782","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}