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The social life of money for children

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Abstract Inspired by Nigel Dodd's The Social Life of Money, this article proposes an analysis of entangled economic lives, that is, how meaning, structures and politics jointly shape the flow of monies within households. The past decades have marked a shift from “childrearing expenditures” to “parenting investments” that align with new visions of both ...
Nina Bandelj
wiley   +1 more source

Huimin Insurance and unequal economic welfare between urban and rural areas: evidence from Chinese cities. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Ma J, Li S, Xue W.
europepmc   +1 more source

Capital and the Family

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How are capital and the family interconnected in contemporary capitalism? In this article, we argue that they come together in owning relations. By owning capital across generations, families bridge the temporal gap between the durability of capital and the finite lifespan of private property holders and thus resolve the problem of bona ...
Jens Beckert, Isabell Stamm
wiley   +1 more source

Cumulative displacement in old age: a phenomenological study of life-course trajectories to homelessness among older adults in Iran. [PDF]

BMC Geriatr
Parvaei S, Rashedi V, Sharifi Saei MH.
europepmc   +1 more source

Marriage, Wealth, and the Spread of Cohabitation in Canada

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research demonstrates a robust link between marriage and wealth. Wealth facilitates marriage, which then fosters wealth accumulation, resulting in significant net worth disparities between married and cohabiting couples. Does the decline of marriage and growth of cohabitation alter this relationship?
Maude Pugliese
wiley   +1 more source

Estimating the societal impact of medical interventions: a case study in metastatic breast cancer. [PDF]

J Comp Eff Res
Tsotra F, Dunton K, Rosenlund M, Steinbeck L, Johal S.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

How Cultural Taste Shapes Recognition and Redistribution Struggles: Far‐Right Politics, Touristification and the Political Economy of Taste

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article connects cultural taste to capitalist mechanisms of redistribution through the concept of political economy of taste. Building on Bourdieusian scholarship on recognition struggles and drawing on Mike Savage and Nancy Fraser, it examines how public performances of taste reshape representations of working‐class culture and how these
Simone Varriale
wiley   +1 more source

Reducing Humanitarian Migrants' Welfare Dependency through Language Support: Evidence from Australia's Adult Migrant English Program

Economic Record, EarlyView.
Humanitarian migrants are among the most vulnerable migrant groups, often facing significant integration challenges, particularly language barriers. In response, many developed countries have introduced language programs to support their settlement. This study uses an event study (staggered difference‐in‐differences) approach and data from Australia's ...
Bowen Wang, Tunye Qiu
wiley   +1 more source

Informal workers' perceptions of retirement planning in developing countries. [PDF]

PLoS One
Prasad NS, Prakash A, Kumar NN.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Evolution of the Earnings Distribution in a Sustained Growth Economy: Evidence from Australia*

Economic Record, EarlyView.
We examine the evolution of earnings inequality, risk and mobility in Australia from 1991 to 2020 using a 10 per cent sample of administrative tax records from the ALife dataset. Our main findings are summarised as follows. First, earnings inequality follows a distinctive trajectory: top‐end inequality increased during the 1990s and 2000s but declined ...
Darapheak Tin, Chung Tran, Nabeeh Zakariyya   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source