This article argues for a citizen social science methodology in which residents from the sites of inquiry play central role key activities research process and beyond: design data collection, presentation publication findings, implementation urban interventions that address challenges to quality life. is way democratising through sustained engagement with communities an emphasis on co-designing...

Do areas with higher levels of social capital have stronger economies? Robert Putnam has advanced this proposition most recently in Bowling Alone, his magisterial study of civic engagement in the United States. Regrettably, he offers only anecdotal evidence to support his contention. Determining the empirical veracity of the economic implications of social capital is crucial to applying the con...

Background Social networking services (SNSs) are widely used as communicative tools for a variety of purposes. SNSs rely on the users' individual activities associated with some cost and effort, and thus it is not known why users voluntarily continue to participate in SNSs. Because the structures of SNSs are similar to that of the public goods (PG) game, some studies have focused on why volunta...

We test for the long-term impact of experiencing “prosperity in youth” (PIY) on nontraditional category consumption. Using unique twenty-year panel data of individuals from nine Chinese provinces with varying levels of per-capita GDP and rates of per-capita GDP growth, we find robust evidence for the PIY effect. We find both a direct effect of one’s own prosperity and an indirect effect of the ...

We provide an account of how Protestantism promoted economic prosperity in China—a country Weber ruled out for the development of Protestantism and capitalism. Using prefectural-level data from 1840-1920, a period when China was forced to open up to the West and experienced an early phase of capitalist development, we exploit the outcome of the Boxer Uprising to identify the causal effect of th...

a volume of essays on topics in demography honoring Paul demeny would be incomplete without asking why large parts of the european civilization that produced Paul, a gentleman and a scholar in the finest sense of both words, have decided, through the aggregate decisions of women and men, to commit gradual “demographic suicide.” one would think that potential mothers and fathers, facing the prom...

I n the early 1980s, David Barker and others noted a paradox: although overall rates of cardiovascular disease increase with rising national prosperity, the least prosperous residents of a wealthy nation suffer the highest rates. He and others proposed over a series of studies that an adverse fetal environment followed by plentiful food in adulthood may be a recipe for adult chronic disease, a ...

Let Γ be a simple graph of size m and degree sequence δ1 ≥ δ2 ≥ · · · ≥ δn. Let L(Γ) denotes the line graph of Γ. The aim of this paper is to study mathematical properties of the alliance number, a(L(Γ), and the global alliance number, γa(L(Γ)), of the line graph of a simple graph. We show that ⌈