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Measuring Political Institutions in the Long Run: A Latent Variable Analysis of Political Regimes, 1810–2018
In this article, latent variable analysis is used to construct hybrid measure of political development based on the plausible common variation...
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Welfare Stateness as an Explanatory Variable: Empirical Illustration
While the previous chapters explored ways to conceptualise the welfare state as an independent variable, the following part will deal with the...
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Graphical diagnostics in proportional odds models—Empirical study on determinants of FinTech payment service diffusion by SMEs in Italy
FinTech, the merging of finance and modern Internet-based technology, has rapidly presented itself as a disruptor to traditional business sector. In...
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On the Measurement of Happiness and of its Inequality
Given that happiness or satisfaction with life is generally measured via an ordinal variable, the question arises as to how one should measure...
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The Relationship Between Subjective Wellbeing and Subjective Wellbeing Inequality: An Important Role for Skewness
We argue that the relationship between individual satisfaction with life (SWL) and SWL inequality is more complex than described by earlier research....
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Multidimensional Deprivation and Subgroup Heterogeneity of Rural Households in China: Empirical Evidence from Latent Variable Estimation Methods
After all the rural poor are lifted out of poverty under the current government policy, the income gap between urban and rural residents in China...
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A machine learning-based assessment of subjective quality of life
This paper evaluates subjective quality of life using various Machine Learning (ML) techniques. Utilizing a survey conducted in Quito’s historical...
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Psychometric Validation of Constructs Defined by Ordinal-Valued Items
Determining the structure and assessing the psychometric properties of constructs (scales) before their use is a prerequisite of scaling theory. This...
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Investigating Potential Gender-Based Differential Item Functioning for Items in the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ) Physical Limitations Domain
Women with heart failure report worse health-related quality of life on average, than men. This may result from actual differences in care or...
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Exploring the Role of Perceived Social Support on Subjective Well-Being Among Youth in India
The study investigates the relationship between an individual’s sense of well-being and various factors related to their social environment,...
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Minimum Animal Units and the Standardized Count Problem
Minimum animal units (MAU) are central to the study of skeletal part profiles in zooarchaeology. This measure standardizes skeletal part counts by...
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Beyond Reconstruction: What Leads to Satisfaction in Post-Disaster Recovery?
Many studies have shown that economic and political freedom better predict overall satisfaction than income or material consumption. However, in the...
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Index of active participation in society
The concept of Active citizenship is gaining importance. Ignoring the issues of selection of dimensions and items, the paper addresses methodological...
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Evaluation of the Unmodified Measurement Models
Combining the insights from section 5.4, the estimator for the present study should adequately handle partially non-normal, incomplete data to avoid...
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Does Mobile Internet Use Affect the Subjective Well-being of Older Chinese Adults? An Instrumental Variable Quantile Analysis
Although mobile Internet has become an integral part of people’s daily life in the world today, research on whether and to what extent mobile...
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Wild and Indigenous Foods (WIF) and Urban Food Security in Northern Namibia
Rapid urbanisation and food system transformation in Africa have been accompanied by growing food insecurity, reduced dietary diversity, and an...
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Fridays for Future Self-empowerment
This chapter uses ordinal logistic regression to examine the propensity of respondents from two representative population surveys to self-empowerment...
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Calculating weighted scores from a multiple correspondence analysis solution
Survey response data to address attitudes, satisfaction and other variables of interest to social scientists often rely on a set of statements for...
