Møller, Valerie Erstad, Ida Zani, Dalinyebo
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Social Indicators Research
This paper follows up an unexpected finding from a community survey that identified drinking and smoking as the most important tuberculosis (TB) risk factor, far ahead of ones commonly associated with TB such as poverty, overcrowded living conditions, and HIV-positive status. It reports perceptions of drinking and smoking from a three-phased study ...
Kunst, M. J. J. Bogaerts, S. Wilthagen, T. Winkel, F. W.
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Social Indicators Research
Violent victimisation may have many short-term psychological and physical outcomes. Occasionally, the negative aftermath of violence persists over time or induces other and more far-reaching consequences. Income attainment after victimisation is one of these outcomes. To date, previous studies have focussed on the income effects of violent victimis...
van Kempen, Luuk
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Social Indicators Research
The paper reports on a field experiment conducted among poor women organized in self-help groups in the north-east of India. The experiment tests in a simple game whether overly optimistic expectations with respect to the benefits of exercising agency reduces one’s appreciation of remaining with agency in the future. If so, unrealistic expectations...
Sawatzky, Richard Ratner, Pamela A Johnson, Joy L Kopec, Jacek A Zumbo, Bruno D
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Social indicators research
Several measurement assumptions were examined with the goal of assessing the validity of the Multidimensional Students' Life Satisfaction Scale (MSLSS), a measure of adolescents' satisfaction with their family, friends, living environment, school, self, and general quality of life. The data were obtained via a cross-sectional survey of 8,225 adoles...
James, Jeffrey
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For the majority of those living in developing countries (especially in the rural areas) sharing may be the only means of obtaining access to IT. Oddly, however, no-one has viewed ‘IT for development’ specifically from this point of view for the Internet, computers and mobile phones. A good beginning, it seems to me, is to make an analytical classi...
Voorpostel, Marieke van der Lippe, Tanja Gershuny, Jonathan
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van Klaveren, Chris van den Brink, Henriette Maassen
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If partners derive utility from joint leisure time, it is expected that they will coordinate their work schedules in order to increase the amount of joint leisure. In order to control for differences in constraints and selection effects, this paper uses a new matching procedure, providing answers to the following questions: (1) Do partners coordina...
James, Jeffrey Versteeg, Mila
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Social Indicators Research
Mobile phones are a crucial mode of communication and welfare enhancement in poor countries, especially those lacking an infrastructure of fixed lines. In recent years much has been written about how mobile telephony in Africa is rapidly reducing the digital divide with developed countries. Yet, when one examines the evidence it is not at all clear...
Fisher, Kimberly Egerton, Muriel Gershuny, Jonathan I Robinson, John P
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We present evidence from a new comprehensive database of harmonized national time-diary data that standardizes information on almost 40 years of daily life in America. The advantages of the diary method over other ways of calculating how time is spent are reviewed, along with its ability to generate more reliable and accurate measures of productive...
Ostir, Glenn V. Ottenbacher, Kenneth J. Fried, Linda P. Guralnik, Jack M.
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Social Indicators Research
The aim of the current study was to examine the interactive effects of depressive symptoms and lower extremity functioning on social participation for a group of moderately to severely disabled older women. The study used a cross-sectional community based sample, enrolled in the Women’s Health and Aging Study I, randomly selected from the Centers f...
