Pub Date : 2026-02-03DOI: 10.1177/00420980251410862
Sihyun Choi
This study examines intergenerational wealth transfer and class reproduction strategies centered on Gangnam housing, drawing from in-depth interviews with senior residents and their adult children. The senior upper-middle class residents of Gangnam, who acquired residential properties early during the district’s development and accumulated significant wealth, engage in class reproduction by transferring assets—primarily Gangnam real estate—to their adult children. This practice emerges as a response to rising labor market insecurity and increasing housing market polarization, which make it difficult for their children to secure residency in Gangnam independently. This article makes three key arguments. First, it emphasizes that class reproduction strategies extend beyond young adulthood, continuing over the life course into middle age. Second, it highlights that intergenerational wealth transfer requires persistent collaboration and sustained efforts between generations. Third, it argues that family strategies aimed exclusively at sharing scarce urban resources, such as Gangnam’s high-priced real estate, exemplify class- and space-based social closure, thereby functioning as a mechanism that perpetuates social inequality.
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Pub Date : 2026-02-03DOI: 10.1177/00420980251408379
Lora A. Phillips
Scholarly debates about a right to the city in the Global North have largely neglected the potential role of housing type and tenure in shaping displacement risk and socio-demographic disparities therein. Yet, past scholarship demonstrates that mobile home residents face a heighted risk of dispossession relative to residents of other dwelling types. Leveraging microdata from Canada’s 2021 Census of Population, I elucidate who would lose their right to the city if urban mobile home residents were displaced. First, I use latent class analysis to identify two distinct clusters of urban mobile home residents, each containing approximately 50% of Canada’s urban mobile home population, but whose socio-demographic characteristics differ along key dimensions of social vulnerability. Next, I conduct a series of logistic regression models to simulate between-cluster variation in the likelihood of displacement if mobile home dispossession were to occur. Results demonstrate significant variation in the likelihood of displacement across clusters, suggesting that the urban mobile home residents at the greatest risk of displacement are lower-income, white, older adults who are not in the labor force and who live alone. By bringing scholarly debates about a right to the city into conversation with the literature on mobile homes, I underscore the key role of dwelling type and tenure in shaping urban citizenship in Canada.
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Pub Date : 2026-02-03DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2025.104225
Manuel Ammann, Alexander Cochardt, Lauren Cohen, Stephan Heller
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Pub Date : 2026-02-03DOI: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2026.103113
Nathan Kettlewell, Peter Siminski
Minimum supervised driving hours (MSDH) are a key component of Graduated Driver Licensing (GDL) policy. GDL has been shown to reduce motor vehicle accidents, but its optimal design is far from clear. Exploiting two discrete MSDH changes in New South Wales (the largest state in Australia), we estimate causal effects of various MSDH options, providing evidence on driver safety under different regimes. Increasing MSDH from zero to 50 h lowered the risk of a motor vehicle accident in the first year of unsupervised driving by around 23%. Further increasing the mandate to 120 h had no additional benefit.
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Pub Date : 2026-02-03DOI: 10.1177/00420980251413498
Daniel Muñoz
This article examines how disabled people become part of public transport infrastructure through embodied and interactional practices. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and video analysis of journeys in Santiago de Chile, it explores how disabled users co-produce the system’s functioning—anchoring themselves in carriages, navigating ticketing processes, or coordinating alighting from buses. Challenging dominant framings of accessibility as material provision or personal independence, the article emphasizes the relational and distributed nature of disability and mobility. It draws on critical infrastructure studies, disability studies, and ethnomethodology to conceptualize public transport as a “coming-together” of bodies and materialities. Rather than merely revealing breakdowns or failure, the analysis foregrounds the everyday labor of care, coordination, and adjustment through which infrastructure is sustained. Disabled people’s embodied practices are shown to be infrastructural in themselves—constitutive of what allows the system to function. This perspective calls for a shift in how urban mobility is conceptualized and designed: not as a neutral system serving passive users but as an interdependent accomplishment involving human bodies, materials, and social relations. The article argues for recognition of this labor, and for planning approaches that value, rather than seek to eliminate, embodied interdependence as part of more just, inclusive urban transport.
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Pub Date : 2026-02-03DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2026.102424
Yanyue (Lillian) Ding, Jonathan F. Bard
This paper presents a new mixed-integer linear programming model for managing the size and composition of a workforce that provides home healthcare services. Decisions center around hiring, training, and downgrading in the face of high resignation rates and a fluctuating imbalance between supply and demand. Novel features of the model include a workforce that is characterized by hierarchical skills and various levels of experience, both affecting individual productivity and operational costs. The optimization problem is to determine a weekly hiring, training, and downgrading plan over the long-term to minimize the weighted sum of costs. Constraints include meeting demand, assuring that patients can be assigned the most appropriate caregivers, and maintaining a target level of skills and experience among the staff. Complications concern an annual turnover rate that exceeds 60% as well as uncertain demand. To validate the model, extensive tests were conducted using data provided by a U.S. home health agency. The results show that optimal solutions can be obtained in a few minutes or less for most instances, depending on the number of patients and caregivers. A major insight gained from the study is that it is possible to derive hiring rules that are simple to implement and closely match optimal plans.
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