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The authors review the contribution of qualitative methods to exploring concepts and experiences of wellbeing among children
and adults living in developing countries. They provide examples illustrating the potential of these methods for gaining a
holistic and contextual understanding of people’s perceptions and experiences. Some of these come from Young Lives, an innovative
long-term international research project investigating the changing nature of child poverty in India, Ethiopia, Peru and Vietnam
(), and others from the Wellbeing in Developing Countries ESRC research group (WeD), an international, inter-disciplinary project
exploring the social and cultural construction of wellbeing in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Peru and Thailand (). The authors show how qualitative methods can be used both alongside and as part of the development of sensitive and relevant
quantitative measures, and provide some practical and methodological recommendations. They propose that qualitative approaches
are essential in understanding people’s experiences of wellbeing, both now and in the future. However, the authors caution
that while these offer many benefits, for example, a less structured and hierarchical engagement between researcher and participant;
they require time, energy, and sensitivity. Qualitative methods also work best when used by trained and experienced researchers
working in the local language/s in a community where some rapport has already been established. Finally, the paper recommends
combining data from qualitative and quantitative approaches (e.g. psychological measures or household surveys) to enhance
its explanatory power.
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Laura CamfieldEmail: |
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Meera Tiwari 《Social indicators research》2009,90(1):127-140
This paper discusses the grassroots level understanding of poverty and wellbeing. There is rich debate and ever expanding
literature on the meaning of wellbeing and poverty and their relationship in developing countries. In recent times wellbeing
and poverty have been scrutinised within the discourse on multidimensionality of poverty. Most research outputs though are
grounded in quantitative data. Investigations that focus on the perceptions and understandings of poor people about their
situations remain sparse in the literature. The current study is an attempt to address this gap. The paper explores the common
grounds and the points of departure between the researchers’ views of poverty and wellbeing and the perception at the grassroots.
The paper presents findings of primary research conducted by the author in Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh and Madhubani district
of Bihar in India. Semi-structured survey instruments were deployed to interview a selection of poor, marginal and non-poor
households. In addition to identifying the commonalities in grassroots and researchers’ understandings of poverty, the paper
draws attention to factors that may be outside the radar of the researchers. It is envisaged that mapping a more holistic
understanding of poverty and wellbeing will have important long-term policy implications for poverty reduction.
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Meera TiwariEmail: |
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‘Wellbeing’ is a key concept in the study of children’s lives over time, given its potential to link the objective, subjective,
and inter-subjective dimensions of their experiences in ways that are holistic, contextualized and longitudinal. For this
reason wellbeing is one of the core concepts used by Young Lives, a 15-year project (2000–2015) that follows the lives of
12,000 children growing up in the context of poverty in Ethiopia, Peru, Vietnam and Andhra Pradesh (India) (see ). This paper examines a selection of methods being used by Young Lives to capture aspects of child wellbeing in the context
of a range of children’s life experiences related to poverty, specific risks and protective processes. It draws on a review
of the literature on child-focused methods and on recent experiences piloting three core qualitative methods in the four study
countries. The paper reports the development of a methodology that is child-centred, but also acknowledges that every child
is embedded within a network of social and economic relationships.
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Gina CrivelloEmail: |
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Monica Guillen-Royo 《Social indicators research》2008,89(3):535-555
Within material poverty contexts, consumption and subjective wellbeing are positively and strongly related. This is usually
explained in terms of the increased possibilities to satisfy basic needs that additional spending provides. Other important
aspects of consumption, such as its relative, symbolic and hedonic dimensions are not generally considered. The current study
explores these aspects in seven poor Peruvian communities through expenditure and motives using regression analysis. Motives
for consumption are included in the model drawing on psychologists’ research into the importance of accounting for motives
when assessing the impact of material goals on subjective wellbeing. Results reveal that in the Peruvian corridor, consumption
has a meaning beyond mere basic needs satisfaction. Status concerns, the reference group, the pleasure of consuming, providing
for the household basics and the expectation of escaping social marginalisation are aspects of consumption significantly predicting
people’s happiness.
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Monica Guillen-RoyoEmail: |
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Decades of research in countries of the Global North have revealed distinct environmental injustices whereby industrial hazards
tend to be located in poor and minority neighborhoods; few studies have investigated similar relationships between humans
and hazards in the Global South. This study uses conventional quantitative environmental justice methodology to investigate
spatial relationships between residential socio-demographics and maquiladoras (i.e., final assembly plants) in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. When predicting maquiladora density using percent children and social
class in a spatial error regression model, we find that percent children was a positive and significant predictor, while social
class was not significant. Adding formal residential development to the model, social class becomes a negative and significant
predictor. Formal residential development and percent children are also positive and significant. As is the case in the Global
North, relationships between neighborhood characteristics and transnationally operated maquiladoras along the northern border of Mexico are linked to urban development.
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Sara E. GrineskiEmail: |
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Taciano L. Milfont Simon Denny Shanthi Ameratunga Elizabeth Robinson Sally Merry 《Social indicators research》2008,89(1):169-177
The Copenhagen Burnout Inventory (CBI) is a public domain questionnaire measuring the degree of physical and psychological
fatigue experienced in three sub-dimensions of burnout: personal, work-related, and client-related burnout. This study first
examines the reliability and validity of the CBI in measuring burnout in New Zealand secondary school teachers, and then the
relationship between burnout and wellbeing among this population. The CBI had acceptable reliability (internal consistency
and homogeneity) as well as factorial and criterion-related validity. As expected, burnout was negatively related to wellbeing
measures (wellbeing index, school connection, and perceived general health). The findings indicate that this burnout questionnaire
is a valid instrument to use with New Zealand secondary teachers, and also highlight the potential impact of burnout on the
health and wellbeing of teachers.
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Taciano L. MilfontEmail: |
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Since the mid-1980s, New Zealand has experienced extensive economic, social and political reforms. The economic impact of
these changes has been closely monitored and much commented upon. However, the social impacts of the reforms on different
family types are less well understood. This paper outlines a project designed to monitor how the reforms impacted upon specific
family types via the use of indicators of family wellbeing constructed from census data. These indicators show that for a
range of family types, the reforms of the 1980s and 1990s varied in their impact, with single-parent families faring worst.
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Gerard CotterellEmail: |
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The authors seek to give an overview of ways in which social indicators relevant to research on children affected by armed
conflict can be developed, and how such research can be carried out. Technical and methodological challenges involved in this
pursuit are discussed. It is argued that data production must consider issues of definition and delineation of the phenomenon
of war-affected children more actively than it does currently. An analytical approach is proposed, in which children’s characteristics
in different situations, or in different stages of conflict, may be used as intakes to understanding how the social processes
pertaining to life histories of children in armed conflict are created and reproduced.
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Tone SommerfeltEmail: |
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This study reviewed three philosophical accounts of happiness, and then tested those accounts with the Asiabarometer surveys
conducted in six Confucian societies during the summer of 2006. Statistical analyses of these surveys reveal that East Asians
tend to experience happiness to a greater extent when they experience enjoyment together with achievement and/or satisfaction.
The preponderance of such multi-dimensional conceptions in all those societies poses a direct challenge to a single dimensional
account of happiness in the West. The analyses also reveal that positive assessments of interpersonal relationships matter
more than the amount of knowledge or wealth in living a happy life in Confucian societies.
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Doh Chull Shin (Corresponding author)Email: |
Takashi InoguchiEmail: |
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Stephen Machin 《Journal of population economics》2008,21(1):1-19
In this paper (my keynote talk from the 2006 ESPE conference), I discuss the recent upsurge in research on the economics of
education that has occurred, especially in Europe. I discuss the reasons for the increased interest and present some examples
from my recent research in the area. The paper concludes that the increased research interest seems likely to be sustained
for some time to come.
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Stephen MachinEmail: |
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The earned income tax credit and fertility 总被引:3,自引:3,他引:0
Government programs designed to provide income safety nets often restrict eligibility to families with children, creating
an unintended fertility incentive. This paper considers whether dramatically changing incentives in the earned income tax
credit affect fertility rates in the USA. We use birth certificate data spanning the period 1990 to 1999 to test whether expansions
in the credit influenced birthrate among targeted families. While economic theory would predict a positive fertility effect
of the program for many eligible women, our results indicate that expanding the credit produced only extremely small reductions in higher order fertility among white women.
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Stacy Dickert-Conlin (Corresponding author)Email: |
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This paper analyses the relation between public pensions, fertility and child care in a closed-economy overlapping generations
model with endogenous fertility. It is shown that raising a child involves two social externalities and that it is optimal
to introduce child allowances if the government redistributes income from the young to the old. The optimal child allowance
rises when longevity increases. If the costs of raising children depend positively on the wage, a third externality arises
and the returns to savings should be taxed.
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Lex MeijdamEmail: |
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Alfonso Miranda 《Journal of population economics》2008,21(1):67-81
This paper examines how education and family background affect the fertility plans of young individuals in Mexico. Quantile
regression for count data is used for the analysis. Results indicate that education and family structure affect planned fertility
only at the tails of the conditional distribution. Education reduces planned fertility only among women with relatively strong
preferences towards children. An absent father reduces planned fertility mostly at the bottom of the conditional distribution.
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Alfonso MirandaEmail: |
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Chong-Min Park 《Social indicators research》2009,92(2):263-294
The AsiaBarometer survey of 1,023 respondents shows Life in Korea is highly modernized and digitalized without being much
globalized. Despite the modernization and digitalization of their lifestyles, ordinary citizens still prioritize materialistic
values more than post-materialistic values, and they remain least satisfied in the material life sphere. A multivariate analysis
of the Korean survey reveals that their positive assessments of their standard of living and marriage are the most powerful
influences on the quality of life they experience. Remarkable improvements in the objective conditions of life for the past
three decades have failed to transform Korea into a nation of well-being.
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Chong-Min ParkEmail: |
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This paper estimates the impact of a recent expansion in Canadian paid family leave from 25 to 50 weeks on maternal employment
and transfer income. It finds the expansion coincided with increases in transfers to mothers of children age zero to one relative
to mothers of children age three to four, and with decreases in returns to work in the year after birth. These changes were
concentrated among economically advantaged groups of women, defined by marital status, education, and non-wage income. Despite
these changes, there was no evidence of a decrease in returns to work or relative employment for mothers of children age one.
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Maria HanrattyEmail: |
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Theodore Palivos 《Journal of population economics》2009,22(1):131-144
This paper analyzes the welfare effect of illegal immigration on the host country within a dynamic general equilibrium framework
and shows that it is positive for two reasons. First, immigrants are paid less than their marginal product, and second, after
an increase in immigration, domestic households find it optimal to increase their holdings of capital. It is also shown that
dynamic inefficiency may arise, despite the fact that the model is of the Ramsey type. Nevertheless, the introduction of a
minimum wage, which leads to job competition between domestic unskilled workers and immigrants reverses all of the above results.
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Theodore PalivosEmail: |
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Gil S. Epstein 《Journal of population economics》2007,20(3):707-715
This paper considers an economic analysis of intergenerational transition of ethnic and social trait. We consider the level
of social traits chosen by parents and its effect on their children’s choice of ethnic and social traits when reaching adulthood.
We develop a theory that suggests that parents will chose extreme ethnic and social traits to increase the cost that their
children will pay if they wish to deviate from their parents’ “ideal.” The extreme choice of the ethnic social traits of parents
has an effect on the segregation of minorities and migrants.
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Gil S. EpsteinEmail: |
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A single latent variable model of health status and therapeutic health care utilization is estimated for parents and own children
of 6,557 US households. The equation system that identifies latent health status simultaneously determines a number of indicators
of general health, including presence of morbidity symptoms, mobility limitations, medication needs, and utilization of therapeutic
health care services. The main goal of the paper was to obtain an unbiased estimate of parents’ marginal substitution rate
between own and child health. Results indicate that parents’ valuation of their children’s health exceeds their valuation
of own health by almost twofold on average.
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Thomas D. CrockerEmail: |
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In the vast and diverse literature on determinants of life-satisfaction and happiness, there is a relative dearth of empirical
research on the role of specifically political factors. We identify one such possible factor, the industrial welfare state,
and assess its impact on how individuals perceive their well-being. The voluminous literature on the welfare state highlights
its position as one of the most profound chapters in the latter-day human experience, but focuses on its indirect effects
on well-being through economic and social conditions. We contend that the welfare state exerts a more direct effect to the
extent that individuals experience very real impacts on their quality of life. Considering individual responses in 18 industrial
democracies from 1981 to 2000, we find that welfare state generosity exerts a positive and significant impact on life-satisfaction
and happiness. We discuss implications for further research generated by these findings.
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Benjamin RadcliffEmail: |
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Survey data from a U.S. Department of Agriculture funded multi-state longitudinal project revealed a paradox where rural low-income
families from states considered prosperous were persistently more food insecure than similar families from less prosperous
states. An examination of quantitative and qualitative data found that families in the food insecure states were more likely
to experience greater material hardship and incur greater housing costs than families in the food secure states. Families
in the food insecure states, however, did not have lower per capita median incomes or lower life satisfaction than those in
the food secure states. A wide range of strategies to cope with food insecurity reported by families in both food insecure
and food secure states was examined using the Family Ecological Systems Theory. Families in the food insecure states used
several risky consumption reduction strategies such as curbing their appetite and using triage. Families in the food secure
states, on the other hand, employed positive techniques involving their human capital.
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Leslie RichardsEmail: |