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Autor:
Mariah Debra Evans, Jonathan Kelley
Publikováno v:
Social Science Research. 62:39-74
Based on earlier, mainly aggregate analyses, conventional wisdom previously held that income inequality reduces happiness. But aggregate models consistently yield misleading results in this domain, substantially because of intractable problems of sam
Publikováno v:
Comparative Sociology. 15:41-84
This paper investigates how the drastic educational reforms during the Communist period changed the effects of family background on education in China, in comparison to other nations. Data are from the Life Histories and Social Change in Contemporary
Publikováno v:
Social Indicators Research. 117:1089-1110
This paper analyses the effect of income inequality on Europeans’ quality of life, specifically on their overall well-being (happiness, life satisfaction), on their financial quality of life (satisfaction with standard of living, affordability of g
Publikováno v:
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility. 28:171-197
Children growing up in homes with many books get 3 years more schooling than children from bookless homes, independent of their parents’ education, occupation, and class. This is as great an advantage as having university educated rather than unsch
Autor:
Jonathan Kelley, Mariah Debra Evans
Publikováno v:
Social science research. 62
Income inequality has been contentious for millennia, a source of political conflict for centuries, and is now widely feared as a pernicious “side effect” of economic progress. But equality is only a means to an end and so must be evaluated by it
Autor:
Mariah Debra Evans, Jonathan Kelley
Publikováno v:
American Journal of Sociology. 99:75-125
Comprehensive data on public beliefs about the legitimacy of income inequality gathered from large, representative national sample surveys in nine nations conducted by the International Social Survey Programme show: (1) broad agreement on the legitim
Autor:
Mariah Debra Evans
Publikováno v:
Sociology. 21:253-274
This paper examines how immigrants' proficiency in speaking English, and preference for retaining their native tongue as the language of the home, affect their occupational attainment in the Australian labour market. In particular, it investigates ho