Senhu Wang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3582839 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Senhu Wang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Senhu |
| FAMILY NAME | Wang |
| SIGNATURE | WANG S |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0065-7059 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 67 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 171 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 67 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Flexibility stigma in the UK and Germany post-pandemic: Intersectionality of stigma across gender and parental lines
Working from home among older adults in the UK: Examining its link to labor market exit intentions and expected retirement age
Prolonging work life has been widely discussed in countries facing population aging. We examine the association between working from home (WFH) and both the labor market exit intentions and expected retirement age among the older workforce in the UK, utilizing data from the harmonized British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and the UK Household Longitudinal Survey (UKHLS), covering the period from September 1998 to May 2020. Findings indicate that …
Family ideals across religious groups: A factorial survey experiment in Singapore
Although cultural differences in family ideals across religious groups are widely reported, prior studies focusing on singular family characteristics (e.g. marriage, fertility, and gender roles) through item-based questionnaires have failed to capture the complexity of how individuals weigh these characteristics against each other within comprehensive family profiles. Addressing this gap, this brief report uses a novel approach (i.e. factorial su…
Breadwinner and Homemaker: A Vignette Survey Experimental Study of Urban Chinese Women’s Preferences for Marriage Partners
Vulnerability of Livelihood Capital and Its Structural Causes: Evidence From Rural Left-Behind Women in China
The spatial restructuring of rural households and the outflow of labor in China have placed left-behind women in situations of livelihood vulnerability. The sustainable livelihood framework provides a critical theoretical tool for examining issues of poverty governance and sustainable development. Building on this framework, and integrating structural poverty theory with feminist economics, this study conducts an in-depth analysis of the characte…
Gig work dependence and psychological distress in chronic illness
Chronic illness is associated with lower quality of life, yet it remains unclear whether this association differs by employment arrangements, particularly gig work. Using longitudinal data (2019–2024) from a nationally representative sample of 22,712 British workers, we examined how regular and gig employment moderate the association between chronic illness and psychological distress (GHQ-12; range: 0–12). Random-effects models indicate that indi…
Gendered Dynamics of Gig Economy Dependence and Life Satisfaction: The Mediating Role of Perceived Financial Insecurity
School District Housing Ownership and Intentions to Have More Children: Evidence From China
Fertility intentions in East Asia are increasingly constrained by rising educational expenditures and growing parental educational aspirations. While existing studies have examined the relationship between homeownership and fertility, they typically treat homeownership as a homogeneous status, largely overlooking how homeownership is stratified by access to scarce, higher‐quality public educational resources. Using data from the Survey of Marriag…
Parenthood and Subjective Financial Well‐Being: Reconsidering the Economic Consequences of Parenthood
Objective We aim to examine how experiences of parenthood influence subjective financial well‐being, particularly in the context of rising economic uncertainties and the pressures of intensive parenting norms. Background Despite the widely recognized negative effects of financial pressure on subjective well‐being, limited research explores the connection between parenthood and subjective financial circumstances. Method This study uses longitudina…
Working time variation, work autonomy, and self-reported Health during the Covid-19 pandemic in China
With the rise of flexible work arrangements and digital technologies, working time variation has become increasingly prevalent in the labor market. However, its health implications remain debated: some suggest that working time variation enhances flexibility and promotes well-being, while others argue it leads to increased precarity and adverse health outcomes. Utilizing data from a nationally representative survey in China during the COVID-19 pa…
Flexible Work Schedules and Labor Market Exits: A Longitudinal Analysis of Gender and Parenthood Differences in Germany
Flexible working is advocated to reduce gender inequalities in labor market exit risks by supporting work-life balance. However, research is limited on how employer-set and employee-set flexible working arrangements are associated with labor market exits and how the associations vary by gender and parenthood, since women, especially mothers, have less access to employee-set flexibility and are at heightened risk of leaving the labor market. To he…
Revisiting Flexibility Stigma: How Framing Remote Working Shapes Bias Against Remote Workers
Despite the steep rise in working from home practices across the world, stigmatized views against remote workers still exist and are slowly coming back as evidenced by managers' requests for workers to return to the office. Drawing on a national sample of managers in Singapore, this study uses a factorial vignette experiment to examine how the framing of remote working may change managers' bias against remote workers and for whom such framing mat…
Gender and Parenthood Differences in Work Time Fragmentation in the United States: The Moderating Role of Occupational Class
Work time fragmentation refers to the number of distinct work episodes in a day, indicating disruptions in work schedules and the degree of workday fragmentation. With the expansion of flexible labor markets in the U.S., work time fragmentation has become more prevalent. Although gender and parenthood differences in labor market outcomes and family responsibilities are well studied, their manifestation in work time fragmentation remains underexpl…
Causal Effects of Education on Marriage and Fertility in Japan: A Research Note on a Quasi-Experimental Approach Utilizing Zodiac Superstition as an Exogenous Shock
Despite extensive research on education's relationship with family formation, causal evidence remains limited, particularly for postsecondary education in East Asia. This research note provides novel causal evidence on education's effects on marriage and fertility among Japanese women by exploiting a unique quasi-experimental design based on the 1966 “Firehorse” zodiac superstition. We leverage the mismatch between Japanese school year and calend…
Unraveling the dyadic dynamics: Exploring the impact of flexible working arrangements’ availability on satisfaction with work-life flexibility among working parents
Despite ample research on the association between the availability of flexible working arrangements (FWAs) and satisfaction from an individual perspective, little has explored the dyadic correlation between the availability of FWAs and satisfaction with work-life flexibility (WLF) from a couple-level perspective among working parents. Drawing on a linked lives perspective and the work-family border theory, this study contributes to the literature…
Married Couples’ Life Satisfaction and Gender Divisions of Income and Housework in China
A longitudinal dyadic analysis of financial strain and mental distress among different-sex couples: The role of gender division of labor in income and housework
Overall, these findings provide valuable insights into our understanding of the relationship financial strain and mental distress by incorporating the dyadic perspective and gendered division of labor
Whose gender ideology matters? A dyadic analysis of gender ideology and housework time in the United Kingdom
Research on gender ideology and housework tends to treat gender ideology as an individual characteristic but has paid less attention to the interactional process in which both spouses’ gender ideologies jointly shape their housework time. Analysing longitudinal dyadic data from the United Kingdom (1993–2020) using the actor–partner interdependence model, we examine the relationship between both spouses’ gender ideologies and their housework time …
Beyond the Individual: Unraveling the Couple-Level Effects of Working Time Mismatch on Work-Life Outcomes Among Working Parents
Dependence and Precarity in the Gig Economy: A Longitudinal Analysis of Platform Work and Mental Distress
While there is a growing body of literature examining platform dependence and its implications for mental health, much of the research has focused on gig workers with small sample sizes. The lack of large-scale quantitative research, particularly using longitudinal representative data, limits a comprehensive understanding of the dynamic relationship between platform dependence and mental distress. This study uses nationally representative data fr…
Working Time Mismatch and Employee Subjective Well-being across Institutional Contexts: A Job Quality Perspective
Despite the well-documented negative impact of working time mismatch on employee subjective well-being, little is known about the extent to which this association can be explained by job quality and how these patterns may differ across institutional contexts. Utilizing panel data from the UK and cross-country data from Europe, the decomposition analyses show that for underemployment, more than half of the negative effects are explained by low job…
Guanxi Culture, Corruption and Patronage: A Longitudinal Prefecture-Level Analysis in Contemporary China
Corruption and guanxi are believed to be engaged in a close relationship in China. Yet, quantitative evidence is scarce, primarily due to data limitations especially difficulties in measuring local corruption and guanxi culture. This study extracts corruption-related court judgments from the China Judgments Online website and uses an online search index to quantify local instrumental guanxi culture. Based on panel data assembled from 70,186 court…
A longitudinal dyadic analysis of gender ideology during the transition into parenthood
ObjectiveWe aim to examine how the interplay between couples' gender ideology and economic power shapes gender ideology evolution during the transition into parenthood.BackgroundPrevious research has examined individual-level changes in gender ideology during the transition into parenthood, overlooking the dynamic interaction in which the characteristics of both spouses mutually shape each other's gender ideology.MethodAnalyzing longitudinal coup…
Flexible work arrangements, gender ideology, and housework time among dual-earner couples
The potential of flexible work arrangements (FWAs) to reduce gender disparities in domestic labor has been a topic of considerable debate. Scholars posit that the extent of this equalizing impact hinges on how couples, when employing FWAs, allocate their time between work and family domains based on their prevailing gender ideologies. Analyzing longitudinal couple-level dyadic data in the United Kingdom and using the actor-partner interdependence…
Who is using flexible work arrangements among couples? A longitudinal analysis of the disparities between gender, parenthood, and occupations
The rise of flexible work arrangements (FWAs) holds promise for advancing gender equality by enabling both men and women to better manage work and family. However, this expectation hinges on the actual utilization of FWAs by both genders in response to family needs. Drawing on longitudinal dyadic data from the UK (2010-2022), this study examines the disparities in the use of FWAs among couples by gender, parenthood, and occupation. We find that w…
A shorter working week for everyone: How much paid work is needed for mental health and well-being
The Role of Gender Role Attitudes and Immigrant Generation in Ethnic Minority Women’s Labor Force Participation in Britain
Although substantial research shows that in Britain some ethnic minority women have significantly lower labor force participation (LFP) rates than White British women, even after controlling for demographic characteristics and education levels, little is known about the reasons underlying the remaining ethnic differences. Using nationally representative data (2010-2011), I investigate the role of gender role attitudes in explaining the ethnic as …
Can Active Labour Market Programmes Emulate the Mental Health Benefits of Regular Paid Employment? Longitudinal Evidence from the United Kingdom
Active Labour Market Programmes (ALMPs), which form important components of employment support policies around the world, have been found to improve mental health and wellbeing of participants. However, it remains unclear how these health effects compare with the effects of different types of employment for men and women. Using 1991-2019 panel data in the UK, we find that unemployed women derive similar mental health benefits from ALMPs compared …
An exploration of the multiple motivations for spending less time at work
This article makes a significant empirical contribution to our understanding of why people in the United Kingdom without childcare responsibilities actively reduce or limit the amount of time they spend in paid employment. We show how the negative aspects of employment (push factors) and the desire to spend time in more varied and enjoyable ways (pull factors) interact to produce decisions to enact working time reductions (WTRs). The push factors…
Opportunity or Exploitation? A Longitudinal Dyadic Analysis of Flexible Working Arrangements and Gender Household Labor Inequality
It has been extensively debated over whether the rise of flexible working arrangements (FWAs) may be an "opportunity" for a more egalitarian gender division of household labor or reinforce the "exploitation" of women in the traditional gender division. Drawing on a linked-lives perspective, this study contributes to the literature by using longitudinal couple-level dyadic data in the UK (2010-2020) to examine how couple-level arrangements of flex…
Participation in civil society organizations and ethnic minorities' interethnic friendships in Britain
In Britain, civil society organizations (CSOs) have garnered much praise for promoting interethnic friendships (IEF) and strengthening community cohesion. Yet, there is very little empirical evidence to suggest that participation in CSOs promotes ethnic minorities' IEF. Using nationally representative longitudinal (2011-2019) and cross-sectional (2010) data, this article explores the association between participation in CSOs and IEF formation amo…
Work Schedule Control and Allostatic Load Biomarkers: Disparities Between and Within Gender
Exploring Ethnic and Generational Differences in Gender Role Attitudes among Immigrant Populations in Britain: The Role of Neighborhood Ethnic Composition
Divergent gender role attitudes among ethnic groups in Britain are thought to contribute to ethnic disparities in many socio-economic domains. Using nationally representative data (2010–2011), we investigate how ethnic minority gender role attitudes vary across generations and with neighborhood ethnic composition. The results show that while Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Indians, and Black Africans have more traditional attitudes than Black Caribbean…
Revisiting the “parallel lives” thesis: Neighbourhood attachment and residential integration of ethnic minorities in England
Recent debates about the failures of multiculturalism have questioned whether ethnic minorities gradually integrate into the British society or instead lead “parallel lives” in segregated communities. Using nationally representative data (2011–2012), we contribute to the debate by investigating the associations between ethnic minority neighbourhood attachment and neighbourhood ethnic composition. Our results show that although all ethnic minoriti…
Migration and health in China: Linking sending and host societies
China's large‐scale internal migration has stimulated ongoing debates about consequences of geographical mobility for population health. Although existing research predominantly focused on migrants' health in host societies, the complex relationship between migration and health throughout the full migratory cycle remains understudied. Analysing data from 2010 China General Social Survey ( N = 1,660), we investigate variations in migrants' physica…
The Impact of Reduced Working Hours and Furlough Policies on Workers' Mental Health at the Onset of Covid-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Study
Although reduced working time and furlough policy initiatives are widely regarded as important for economic and business reasons, little is known about their impacts on workers' mental health at the onset of COVID-19 pandemic. Using data from the UK Household Longitudinal Panel Study data from 2018 to February 2020 and April 2020 and change score analysis, this study aims to compare mental health changes between those who worked reduced hours, we…
Gig work and mental health during the Covid-19 pandemic: A gendered examination of comparisons with regular employment and unemployment
Gender‐role preference matters: How family policy dissemination affects marriage/fertility intentions
Despite a wide range of family policies, marriage and fertility rates in Japan remain very low among developed countries. Drawing on data from a national survey experiment, this study aims to examine whether dissemination of existing family policies can increase marriage and fertility intentions of Japanese young individuals and whether the effect depends on their gender‐role preferences. The results show that informing and/or reminding responden…
Family Policy Awareness and Marital Intentions: A National Survey Experimental Study
Despite extensively examining the effects of family policies on marriage and fertility rates, previous research has paid little attention to the process of policy implementation and has implicitly assumed that individuals are fully aware of the policy information when making marital and fertility decisions. Challenging this assumption, we theorize policy awareness as an important mechanism for understanding the potential influence of family polic…
Demand-side consequences of unemployment and horizontal skill mismatches across national contexts: An employer-based factorial survey experiment
Generational health improvement or decline? Exploring generational differences of British ethnic minorities in six physical health outcomes
Objectives: To explore ethnic and generational differences in six physical health outcomes and whether these differences can be explained by health-related behaviors and socio-economic status. Design: Multivariate analyses using nationally representative data in 2010-2011 on self-assessed general health, activity-limiting illness, doctor-diagnosed diabetes, doctor-diagnosed high blood pressure, doctor-diagnosed asthma and body mass index from 21,…
Searching for the Rainbow Connection: Regional Development and LGBT Communities in China
China is estimated to have 70 million lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people, and in recent decades, the LGBT movement has seen rapid growth. However, because of the unavailability of data, a comprehensive understanding of the degree of regional development of the Chinese LGBT movement has been unavailable. By analyzing keyword search volumes for LGBT-related terms on Baidu (the largest internet search engine in China) from 2009 th…
Work-schedule instability and workers’ health and well-being across different socioeconomic strata in China
Diversity patterns in non-standard employment and their relationship with self-rated health in urban China from 2010 to 2021
Just the freedom to get good at things and stuff like that”: Why spending less time at work would be good for individual, social and environmental wellbeing
Whose gender ideology matters? A dyadic analysis of gender ideology and housework time in the United Kingdom
Research on gender ideology and housework tends to treat gender ideology as an individual characteristic but has paid less attention to the interactional process in which both spouses’ gender ideologies jointly shape their housework time. Analysing longitudinal dyadic data from the United Kingdom (1993–2020) using the actor–partner interdependence model, we examine the relationship between both spouses’ gender ideologies and their housework time …
Dependence and Precarity in the Gig Economy: A Longitudinal Analysis of Platform Work and Mental Distress
While there is a growing body of literature examining platform dependence and its implications for mental health, much of the research has focused on gig workers with small sample sizes. The lack of large-scale quantitative research, particularly using longitudinal representative data, limits a comprehensive understanding of the dynamic relationship between platform dependence and mental distress. This study uses nationally representative data fr…
Working Time Mismatch and Employee Subjective Well-being across Institutional Contexts: A Job Quality Perspective
Despite the well-documented negative impact of working time mismatch on employee subjective well-being, little is known about the extent to which this association can be explained by job quality and how these patterns may differ across institutional contexts. Utilizing panel data from the UK and cross-country data from Europe, the decomposition analyses show that for underemployment, more than half of the negative effects are explained by low job…
A longitudinal dyadic analysis of gender ideology during the transition into parenthood
ObjectiveWe aim to examine how the interplay between couples' gender ideology and economic power shapes gender ideology evolution during the transition into parenthood.BackgroundPrevious research has examined individual-level changes in gender ideology during the transition into parenthood, overlooking the dynamic interaction in which the characteristics of both spouses mutually shape each other's gender ideology.MethodAnalyzing longitudinal coup…
Who is using flexible work arrangements among couples? A longitudinal analysis of the disparities between gender, parenthood, and occupations
The rise of flexible work arrangements (FWAs) holds promise for advancing gender equality by enabling both men and women to better manage work and family. However, this expectation hinges on the actual utilization of FWAs by both genders in response to family needs. Drawing on longitudinal dyadic data from the UK (2010-2022), this study examines the disparities in the use of FWAs among couples by gender, parenthood, and occupation. We find that w…
Inching Up and Socio-economic Differentiation: Exploring Self-rated Health of China’s Rural-to-Urban Migrants from 2005 to 2015
Objective Large-scale rural-to-urban migration in China has stimulated heated discussion about rural migrants' poor health status. This article reports the first study in China that compares the aggregate-level change in self-rated health of rural migrants between 2005 and 2015, and explores whether the difference, if any, can be explained by their different public health insurance enrollment status due to China's health reforms in the late 2000s…
Revisiting the “parallel lives” thesis: Neighbourhood attachment and residential integration of ethnic minorities in England
Recent debates about the failures of multiculturalism have questioned whether ethnic minorities gradually integrate into the British society or instead lead “parallel lives” in segregated communities. Using nationally representative data (2011–2012), we contribute to the debate by investigating the associations between ethnic minority neighbourhood attachment and neighbourhood ethnic composition. Our results show that although all ethnic minoriti…
Generational health improvement or decline? Exploring generational differences of British ethnic minorities in six physical health outcomes
Objectives: To explore ethnic and generational differences in six physical health outcomes and whether these differences can be explained by health-related behaviors and socio-economic status. Design: Multivariate analyses using nationally representative data in 2010-2011 on self-assessed general health, activity-limiting illness, doctor-diagnosed diabetes, doctor-diagnosed high blood pressure, doctor-diagnosed asthma and body mass index from 21,…
The Role of Gender Role Attitudes and Immigrant Generation in Ethnic Minority Women’s Labor Force Participation in Britain
Although substantial research shows that in Britain some ethnic minority women have significantly lower labor force participation (LFP) rates than White British women, even after controlling for demographic characteristics and education levels, little is known about the reasons underlying the remaining ethnic differences. Using nationally representative data (2010-2011), I investigate the role of gender role attitudes in explaining the ethnic as …
Exploring Generational Differences of British Ethnic Minorities in Smoking Behavior, Frequency of Alcohol Consumption, and Dietary Style
Background: This article explores ethnic minority generational differences in smoking behavior, frequency of alcohol consumption, and dietary style in Britain, and whether these differences can be explained by generational differences in socioeconomic status and ethnic identity. Method: Multivariate analyses using wave 2 (2010-2012) and wave 5 (2013-2015) of the United Kingdom Household Longitudinal Study on smoking behavior, frequency of alcohol…
Does Immigrant Generation Matter? Re-examining the Ethnic Density Effects on Mental Health of Ethnic Minorities in Britain
Objectives: In this study, we extend previous research by re-examining the ethnic density effects on mental health of British ethnic minorities and exploring how the relationship varies across generations at a lower geographic scale Lower Super Output Areas (official census geographical classification designed for the consistent reporting of local statistics). Methods: We used random intercept logistic multilevel models to analyze the second wave…
Impact of International Immigration on Life Satisfaction of Local Residents in England: Exploring the Differentiated Relationships across Socioeconomic Gradients
Objectives: Large-scale influxes of international immigrants into England have stimulated heated debate about whether the increasing ethnic diversity has undermined local residents' life satisfaction and wellbeing. In this paper, we provide the first nationally representative evidence on the relationship between international immigration and local residents' life satisfaction in England. Methods: We used multilevel linear regression models to ana…
Migration and health in China: Linking sending and host societies
China's large‐scale internal migration has stimulated ongoing debates about consequences of geographical mobility for population health. Although existing research predominantly focused on migrants' health in host societies, the complex relationship between migration and health throughout the full migratory cycle remains understudied. Analysing data from 2010 China General Social Survey ( N = 1,660), we investigate variations in migrants' physica…
Exploring Ethnic and Generational Differences in Gender Role Attitudes among Immigrant Populations in Britain: The Role of Neighborhood Ethnic Composition
Divergent gender role attitudes among ethnic groups in Britain are thought to contribute to ethnic disparities in many socio-economic domains. Using nationally representative data (2010–2011), we investigate how ethnic minority gender role attitudes vary across generations and with neighborhood ethnic composition. The results show that while Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Indians, and Black Africans have more traditional attitudes than Black Caribbean…
A shorter working week for everyone: How much paid work is needed for mental health and well-being
Prevalence and predictors of general psychiatric disorders and loneliness during Covid-19 in the United Kingdom
The association between PM2.5 exposure and suicidal ideation: A prefectural panel study
We innovatively proposed the measure of suicidal ideation and provided suggestive evidence of a positive association between suicidal ideation and PM 2.5 level
Arts, mental distress, mental health functioning & life satisfaction: Fixed-effects analyses of a nationally-representative panel study
Arts engagement amongst the population as a whole may help enhance positive mental health and life satisfaction, and protect against mental distress. These results are independent of a wide range of time-constant confounding factors
Public and Commercial Medical Insurance Enrollment Rates of Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China
Objectives: Large-scale rural-to-urban migration of China has provoked heated discussion about the health of migrants and whether they have equal access to the health resources. This article aimed to compare the public and commercial medical insurance enrollment rates between temporary, permanent migrants and urban natives. Methods: Average marginal effects (AME) of the weighted logistic regression models using 2017 China General Social Survey fr…
Social Capital and Psychological Well-Being of Chinese Immigrants in Japan
Social capital in immigrants has drawn considerable attention from social scientists. Previous studies have paid attention to how immigrants' bonding social capital (defined as social networks with co-ethnic residents) and bridging social capital (defined as social networks with native residents) are associated with their economic achievement. However, little attention has been paid to immigrants' different social capital's effects on psychologic…
Moving beyond family: Unequal burden across mental health patients’ social networks
History matters: The long-term impact of historical immigrant size on current xenophobia in Japan
Many studies have addressed how current immigrant size affects the strength of xenophobia from the perspectives of intergroup contact and ethnic competition theories. Can native residents’ current xenophobia be explained by historical immigrant size? To explore this question, we use historical immigrant size and a survey dataset to investigate the long-term effects of historical immigrant size on current xenophobia in Japan. The results show that…
Exploring Extrinsic and Intrinsic Work Values of British Ethnic Minorities: The Roles of Demographic Background, Job Characteristics and Immigrant Generation
Despite the increasingly diverse ethnic composition of the British labor force, there is no research investigating whether ethnic minorities have different work values from the White British demographic (White British). Using nationally representative data (2012–2013), this article fills this gap by comparing extrinsic and intrinsic work values between White British and five ethnic minorities, while distinguishing between first and second generat…
Participation in civil society organizations and ethnic minorities' interethnic friendships in Britain
In Britain, civil society organizations (CSOs) have garnered much praise for promoting interethnic friendships (IEF) and strengthening community cohesion. Yet, there is very little empirical evidence to suggest that participation in CSOs promotes ethnic minorities' IEF. Using nationally representative longitudinal (2011-2019) and cross-sectional (2010) data, this article explores the association between participation in CSOs and IEF formation amo…
An exploration of the multiple motivations for spending less time at work
This article makes a significant empirical contribution to our understanding of why people in the United Kingdom without childcare responsibilities actively reduce or limit the amount of time they spend in paid employment. We show how the negative aspects of employment (push factors) and the desire to spend time in more varied and enjoyable ways (pull factors) interact to produce decisions to enact working time reductions (WTRs). The push factors…
Can Active Labour Market Programmes Emulate the Mental Health Benefits of Regular Paid Employment? Longitudinal Evidence from the United Kingdom
Active Labour Market Programmes (ALMPs), which form important components of employment support policies around the world, have been found to improve mental health and wellbeing of participants. However, it remains unclear how these health effects compare with the effects of different types of employment for men and women. Using 1991-2019 panel data in the UK, we find that unemployed women derive similar mental health benefits from ALMPs compared …
Exploring the Longitudinal Relationship Between Lockdown Policy Stringency and Public Negative Emotions Among 120 Countries During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Mediating Role of Population Mobility
The findings confirm that stringent lockdown policies have a negative effect on public emotions via confining population mobility residential areas. To tackle the COVID-19, future public health policies should pay more attention to the unintended negative consequences of lockdown measures on public emotions
Can Volunteering Buffer the Negative Impacts of Unemployment and Economic Inactivity on Mental Health? Longitudinal Evidence from the United Kingdom
Previous research suggests that volunteering can mitigate the negative mental health impacts of unemployment but has yielded mixed results. This study extends the previous literature by examining whether volunteering can buffer the negative impacts of both unemployment and economic inactivity on mental health. Using nationally representative panel data from the United Kingdom Longitudinal Household Study (2010-2020) and fixed effects models, this…
Searching for the Rainbow Connection: Regional Development and LGBT Communities in China
China is estimated to have 70 million lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people, and in recent decades, the LGBT movement has seen rapid growth. However, because of the unavailability of data, a comprehensive understanding of the degree of regional development of the Chinese LGBT movement has been unavailable. By analyzing keyword search volumes for LGBT-related terms on Baidu (the largest internet search engine in China) from 2009 th…
Family Policy Awareness and Marital Intentions: A National Survey Experimental Study
Despite extensively examining the effects of family policies on marriage and fertility rates, previous research has paid little attention to the process of policy implementation and has implicitly assumed that individuals are fully aware of the policy information when making marital and fertility decisions. Challenging this assumption, we theorize policy awareness as an important mechanism for understanding the potential influence of family polic…
Psychology (40 works) · Economics (37 works) · Demographic economics (34 works) · Sociology (33 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (26 works) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (25 works) · Political science (24 works) · Social Psychology (23 works) · Medicine (21 works) · Demography (19 works)