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COVID-19 facial covering during outdoor recreation reflects historical disease prevalence and culture above and beyond governmental measures – A study in 53 countries
IF 3.2 2区 社会学 Q1 SOCIOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103145
Christoph Randler , Jukka Jokimäki , Nadine Kalb , Maria de Salvo , Renan de Almeida Barbosa , Marja-Liisa Kaisanlahti-Jokimäki , Jo-Szu Tsai , Raúl Ortiz-Pulido , Piotr Tryjanowski
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.
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Higher education expansion, economic reform, and the change of college wage premium in urban China (1986–2019): An age-period-cohort analysis
IF 3.2 2区 社会学 Q1 SOCIOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103127
Wei Xu , Qi Xu
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.
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Age discrimination in hiring: Relative importance and additive and multiplicative effects
IF 3.2 2区 社会学 Q1 SOCIOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103135
Jeevitha Yogachandiran Qvist, Christian Albrekt Larsen
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.
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Assessing the impact of an increase in the minimum wage on household income and poverty
IF 3.2 2区 社会学 Q1 SOCIOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-01-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103143
José M. Arranz, Carlos García-Serrano
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.
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Social inequalities in green exposure in small- and medium-sized U.S. cities: A mobility-based approach
IF 3.2 2区 社会学 Q1 SOCIOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-01-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103142
Kee Moon Jang , Junghwan Kim

Background

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.

Objective

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.

Methods

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.

Results

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.

Significance

This study suggests empirical evidence on how mobility-based measurements could help us assess inequality problems in exposure to urban green elements.

Impact

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.
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More to give in marriage? County-level sex ratios and marriage payments in China
IF 3.2 2区 社会学 Q1 SOCIOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-01-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103141
Shichao Du
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.
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Corrigendum to “Same degrees, different outcomes? Fields of study choices and gender wage inequality in Finland and Germany” [Soc. Sci. Res. 122 (2024) 103029]
IF 3.2 2区 社会学 Q1 SOCIOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-01-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103140
Anna Erika Hägglund
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Reciprocity and job mobility: The effect of effort-reward imbalance in the employer-employee relationship on turnover intentions and actual job changes
IF 3.2 2区 社会学 Q1 SOCIOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-01-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103133
Sebastian Prechsl
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.
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Well-being scarring effects of college non-completion
IF 3.2 2区 社会学 Q1 SOCIOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-01-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103138
Martin Neugebauer , Michael Becker , Lilly-Marlen Bihler , Jenny Wagner
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.
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Moral disagreement in everyday life: An inductive framework for capturing ‘moral order’
IF 3.2 2区 社会学 Q1 SOCIOLOGY Pub Date : 2025-01-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103139
Yongren Shi, Regan Smock, Steven Hitlin
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.
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