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Income Aspiration, Income Comparison and Life Satisfaction: The case of Turkish Migrants in the Netherlands
This study examines the effects of income aspiration and social and economic comparison (with a wide range of reference groups) on the life...
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Does Welfare Participation Affect Adolescent Educational Aspiration? Evidence from Panel Data in China
Adolescents from poor families tend to have low educational aspiration, which has become a new perspective for explaining intergenerational...
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Earning Too Little And Worrying Too Much: The Role Of Income And Financial Worries On Parents’ Well-Being In Hong Kong And Bangkok
Research has shown that financial worries are key determinants of parents’ well-being. However, less is known about the relative role of income and...
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Can Multiple Shocks Affect Household Income? Evidence from Poor Rural Areas in China
When transforming from a traditional rural economy to a rapid marketization period, it is essential to consider the relationship between multiple...
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The Role of Relative Income in Determining Marital Satisfaction for Husband and Wife in China
The role of relative income has been greatly discussed in the studies of subjective well-being. However, it is rarely studied with couple’s...
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Young Adults’ Aspiration for Intimacy in Post-collectivist China
This chapter delves into the dynamics of marital choices in contemporary China. The chapter presents contrasting responses between men and women...
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Low-income housing stigma, results and outcomes: a systematic review
This study is aimed to provide an organized view of the causes and outcomes of low-income housing stigma (LIHS) and to analyze them by considering...
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Aspiration Formation and Ecological Shocks in Rural Kenya
Aspirations have been shown to affect households’ decisions around productive investments, but little work explores how aspirations are formed or...
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Post-disaster (im)mobility aspiration and capability formation: case study of Southern California wildfire
Scholarship on the environmental dimensions of migration demonstrates the complex interplay of climatic and non-climatic factors which combine to...
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Megaprojects—mega failures? The politics of aspiration and the transformation of rural Kenya
Megaprojects are returning to play a key role in the transformation of rural Africa, despite controversies over their outcome. While some view them...
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Sociology and Me: A Life Led by Interest and Aspiration
In March 1963, I was born into a peasant family of a production bridge that belongs to Huaizhen Town Commune of **an County, Cangzhou City, Hebei...
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Family Socioeconomic Status and Chinese College Students’ Premarital Sexual Attitudes and Behavior
This article examines the distinct impact of different dimensions of family socioeconomic status (SES) on premarital sexual permissive attitudes and...
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How Conscious Are You of Others? Further Evidence on Relative Income and Happiness
Empirical evidence indicates that an individual’s happiness is relative with respect to income, whereby it increases with one’s own income and...
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Hope Mediates the Relation between Income and Subjective Well-Being
In this study, we examine whether the positive effect of income gains on subjective well-being (SWB) can in part be explained by the improved future...
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Income Distribution: Towards Integration of Equality and Efficiency
The two most well-known theories involving income distribution are the one on the relationship between equality and efficiency and the one of an...
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Examining the Determinants of Poland’s Middle Class Life Satisfaction
Recent works suggest that the increasing income inequalities decreased the middle class size and threatened life satisfaction (LS). However, no such...
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Family social and cultural capital: an analysis of effects on adolescents’ educational outcomes in China
Using a sample of 11,313 students in Grades 7 and 9 from the China Education Panel Survey, this study examines the effects of family social capital...
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Does the Choice of Well-Being Measures Matter in Respecting Human Dignity? Empirical Results from an Indian Slum Survey
This study compares and analyzes four leading well-being measures: standard monetary measures (income and expenditure), subjective well-being (life...
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Education, Aspiration and aage badhna: The Role of Schooling in Facilitating ‘Forward Movement’ in Rural Chhattisgarh, India
This article explores the role of education in marginalised young people’s aspirations for aage badhna (forward movement). Drawing on ethnographic...