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| Wallace, Deborah; Consumers Union; rdwall@ix.netcom.com; Wallace, Rodrick; The New York State Psychiatric Institute; rdwall@ix.netcom.com. |
| Urban neighborhoods form the basic functional unit of municipalities. Socioeconomically, they consist of social networks and interlocking layers of social networks. Old, stable neighborhoods are blessed with large social networks and dense interlocking layers. Both social control and social support depend on these complex structures of tight and loose ties. Public health and public order depend on these structures. They are the basis of resilience of both the neighborhood itself and of the municipality that is composed of neighborhoods. In New York City in the 1970s and later, domain shift occurred because of the disruption of the socioeconomic structure by the massive destruction of low-rental housing. A combined epidemic of building fires and landlord... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Resilience; Social network; Urban system. |
| Ano: 2008 |
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| Chen, Xi. |
| Recent social spending inflation in China has led to its growth rate far exceeding that of income and other consumption. In this paper, we estimate private returns to social spending, such as higher social status and larger social network that serve as certain functions. In almost all specifications we find that gift spending has significant private returns, but the returns are biased towards richer households. Upon comparing different measures of centrality, we also find that social connections are more accurately characterized when weighted by their intensities (values), capturing their role in mobilizing scarce resource in the network. Furthermore, social status and network may change long-term income trajectory and the resulted consumption. However,... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Social network; Social status; Private return; Social spending; Consumption; Consumer/Household Economics. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/98874 |
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