Filters: Department: "Family & Consumer Studies" School Or College: "College of Social & Behavioral Science" Collection: "ir_uspace"
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Wang, Yu; Sun, Bindong; Yu, Zhou | Equalization or polarization? The effect of the Internet on National Urban Hierarchies across the World, 2000-2018 | As Internet adoption and diffusion continues worldwide, little is known about its effects on the restructuring of national urban hierarchies across the world. We create a panel data of city population with uniform definitions within each of the 133 countries from 2000 to 2018, using the Pareto index... | Internet; urban hierarchy; nonlinear link; channel; transnational; urban growth | 2018 |
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Yu, Zhou, Haan, Michael, Yi, Chengdong | The Inception of Housing Pathways in Urban China: The Declining Household Formation of Young Adults from 2011 to 2017 | The homeownership rate of young adults has surged to an unprecedented level in urban China, despite rising housing prices and significant rural-urban migration. A trend analysis of nationally representative microdata shows that household formation is the missing link in the paradox and that many you... | Household formation; headship rates; young adults; migration; institutional barriers; housing pathways | 2017 |
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Qin, Xianhong; Wei, Dennis Yehua; Yu, Zhou; Xiong, Ning | Urbanization, Suburbanization, and Population Redistribution in Urban China: A Case Study of Nanjing | This paper analyzes the urbanization and suburbanization of Nanjing, an ancient capital and a new Tier-1 city in China, from 1990 to 2015. We use on China's census and survey microdata and the shift-share methods to examine population redistribution and spatial expansion in the city. The results sh... | Urbanization; Suburbanization; Migration; Population Redistribution; Nanjing, China | |
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Fan, Jessie X., Yu, Zhou | Prevalence and Risk Factors of Consumer Financial Fraud in China | This study estimates the prevalence of consumer fraud in China and investigates consumer fraud risk factors using a novel two-stage conceptual framework that differentiates fraud exposure from fraud victimization after exposure. Multivariate analyses show that multiple risk factors have opposite eff... | Consumer financial fraud victimization; China; migrants; financial knowledge; risk attitude | |
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Yu, Zhou | Homeownership Attainment of Adult Children in Urban China: Parental Attributes and Financial Support | Soaring homeownership and housing prices have made it more difficult for newcomers to climb the housing ladder without parental support. This study relies on China Household Finance Survey microdata in 2015 to examine the role of parental attributes and financial support on adult children's homeowne... | Demographics; Intergenerational mobility; Parental income transfers; Parental attributes | 2017 |
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Yu, Zhou | Macro effects on the household formation of China s young adults demographics institutional factors and regional differences | Household formation, or the extent to which population is transferred into households, determines housing demand and reflects housing wellbeing. Young adults, who are new entrants to the housing market and sensitive to changing market conditions, have faced many challenges in China's fledging housin... | Household formation; headship rates; housing demand; the post 1970 generation; demographics; regional differences; non-family households | 2017-01-24 |
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Yu, Zhou | Internet Access, Spillover and Regional Development in China | As Internet access grows at different rates across regions, the Internet has had variable effects on regional economies through agglomeration and spillover effects. This paper uses province-level panel data from 2000 to 2013 to study inequality in Internet access, its spatial effect on regional econ... | Digital divide; Internet access; spillover effect; regional economic development; China | 2017-06-03 |
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Yu, Zhou | Assimilation and Rising Taiwanese Identity: Taiwan-born Immigrants in the United States, 1990-2000 | This study examines why a growing percentage of Taiwan-born immigrants in the U.S. have identified themselves as Taiwanese rather than ethnic Chinese in the U.S. decennial censuses between 1990 and 2000. The trend appears inconsistent with the assimilation theory, which postulates that ethnic groups... | Taiwanese; immigration; identity; economic status; United States | 2009-06-01 |
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Yu, Zhou | Changing distribution of migrant population and influencing factors in urban China: economic transition, public policy, and amenities | Migrant redistribution; rural-urban and interregional migration; urban transformation; economic transition; floating population | 2019 | |
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Smith, Ken R. | The association between adult mortality risk and family history of longevity: the moderating effects of socioeconomic status | Studies consistently show that increasing levels of socioeconomic status (SES) and having a familial history of longevity reduce the risk of mortality. But do these two variables interact, such that individuals with lower levels of SES, for example, may experience an attenuated longevity penalty by ... | 2014-01-01 | |
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Brown, Barbara B. | Adding maps (GPS) to accelerometry data to improve study participants recall of physical activity: a methodological advance in physical activity research | Objective Obtaining the ‘when, where and why' of healthy bouts of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) provides insights into natural PA. Design In Salt Lake City, Utah, adults wore accelerometer and Global Positioning System (GPS) loggers for a week in a cross-sectional study to establis... | 2014-01-01 | |
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Zick, Cathleen D. | Does daylight savings time encourage physical activity? | Background: Extending Daylight Savings Time (DST) has been identified as a policy intervention that may encourage physical activity. However, there has been little research on the question of if DST encourages adults to be more physically active. Methods: Data from residents of Arizona, Colorado, Ne... | 2014-01-01 | |
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Fan, Jessie Xiaojing | Sociodemographic and environmental correlates of active commuting in Rural America | Purpose. This research investigated participation rates in 3 modes of active commuting (AC) and their sociodemographic and physical environmental correlates in rural America. Methods. The 2000 Census supplemented with other datasets were used to analyze AC rates in percentage of workers walking, bik... | 2014-01-01 | |
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Brown, Barbara B. | Physical activity mediates the relationship between perceived crime safety and obesity | Objective. The current cross-sectional study tests whether low perceived crime safety is associated with body mass index (BMI) and obesity risk and whether less moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) accounts for part of this relationship. Method. Adults (n=864) from a relatively low-income a... | 2014-01-01 | |
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Zick, Cathleen D. | Family, frailty, and fatal futures? Own-health and family-health predictors of subjective life expectancy | Subjective life expectancy is a powerful predictor of a variety of health and economic behaviors. This research expands upon the life expectancy literature by examining the influence of familial health histories. Using a genetic/environmental model, we hypothesize that individuals' assessments of th... | 2014-01-01 | |
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Zick, Cathleen D. | The kids are all right: Generational differences in responses to the great recession | Data from a university survey of 2,799 employees were examined to determine age cohort differences in retirement planning activities in the aftermath of the Great Recession. A life course approach and logistic regression were used to assess whether members of four different age cohorts altered their... | 2012-01-01 | |
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Smith, Ken R. | A population-based study of childhood cancer survivors body mass index | Population-based studies are needed to estimate the prevalence of underweight or overweight/obese childhood cancer survivors. Procedure. Adult survivors (diagnosed ≤20 years) were identified from the linked Utah Cancer Registry and Utah Population Database. We included survivors currently aged ≥... | 2014-01-01 | |
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D'Astous, Valerie Anne | Grandparents and their grandchildren with autism spectrum disorder: building bridges through technology | Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are neurodevelopmental disorders characterized by impaired social interactions, deficits in verbal and nonverbal communication, and repetitive behaviors or unusual or severely limited interests (American Psychiatric Association 2008). A child's autism diagnosis affect... | 2011 | |
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Diener, Marissa L. | Kindergarten readiness and performance of Latino children participating in Reach Out and Read | Background: Literacy is a vital skill that forms the basis for academic, occupational, and social success. Minority populations, especially immigrant Latinos in the US, have achievement gaps in literacy when compared to the White population. The Reach Out and Read (ROR) program is a pediatric, prima... | 2012-01-01 | |
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Zick, Cathleen D. | Trends in Americans food-related time use: 1975-2006 | Objective: To describe how the time spent in food-related activities by Americans has changed over the past 30 years. Design: Data from four national time diary surveys, spanning 1975-2006, are used to construct estimates of trends in American adults' time spent in food-related activities. Multivari... | 2010-01-01 | |
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Yu, Zhou | Misleading comparisons of homeownership rates when the variable effect of household formation is ignored: explaining rising homeownership and the homeownership gap between Blacks and Asians | Despite ominous signs of housing market stress in the U.S., the homeownership rate reached an all time high in 2006. The conventional definition of homeownership, which is based on the share of households and ignores the effects of variable household formation, confounds the measurement of "success"... | 2010-01-01 | |
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Yu, Zhou | Heterogeneity and dynamics in China's emerging housing market | China's emerging housing market, as a critical element of ongoing economic reforms, has drawn increasing attention. The complete abandonment of the socialist housing allocation system in the late 1990s has led to profound changes in housing distribution and consumption in urban China. This article, ... | Housing distribution; Housing reform; Chinese Census; Beijing; Shanghai; Tianjin; Chongqing | |
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Wolfinger, Nicholas H. | Reexamining the economic costs of marital disruption for women | Changes in labor force participation and returns may have lessened divorce's traditionally severe economic consequences for women. Method. We use recent data from the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH) to analyze the economic well-being of women whose marriages ended between the firs... | 2001 | |
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Brown, Barbara B. | Residential territories: cues to burglary vulnerability | Newman's work on defensible space and Altman's work on territoriality were used to formulate a hypothesis that certain design elements enhance or reflect residential territoriality and thereby influence burglars' target selections. Specifically, evidence on the links from real and symbolic barriers... | Burglary; Residences; Territoriality; Homes | 1985 |
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Smith, Ken R. | Ovarian cancer mortality among immigrants in Australia and Canada | This study examined the impact of changing environments on ovarian cancer by comparing age standardized mortality rates of numerous immigrant groups in Australia and Canada to those in the origin countries for the period 1984-1988. Mortality rates by length of residence in Australia (0-29 and 30+ y... | Ovarian cancer; Immigrants; Australia; Canada; Mortality | 1995 |