Special Issue "Social Resilience and Household Economics: Perspectives for Sustainability"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2021.

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Miriam Marcén
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Department of Economic Analysis, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza 50005, Spain
Interests: household economics; law and economics; demography and culture

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has created a scenario of huge uncertainty, in which healthcare aspects have been prioritized over economic and sustainable development. The question remains as to whether this will change our household economic behavior. To evaluate this question, the key concept is that of social resilience; that is, the capacity that individuals have to recover their initial state once the disturbance to which it was subjected has ceased. Cultural factors, family ties, and neighborhood networks can make social resilience an important issue in terms of household economics and sustainable development. This Special Issue is dedicated to the analysis of how social resilience in terms of household economics under a sustainable framework is possible. In particular, this Special Issue addresses the following aspects: (1) the impacts of COVID-19-related issues on social resilience in terms of household economics; (2) the relationships between household economics, social resilience, and sustainability in terms of culture, family ties, and legislation. Both areas of research may provide useful insights for policy makers.

Prof. Dr. Miriam Marcén
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • social resilience
  • household economics
  • COVID-19
  • culture and sustainability

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A Study on the Public’s Crisis Management Efficacy and Anxiety in a Pandemic Situation—Focusing on the COVID-19 Pandemic in South Korea
Sustainability 2021, 13(15), 8393; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13158393 - 27 Jul 2021
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Social distancing, shutdown, and lockdown policies have recently been implemented worldwide to help slow the spread of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which has caused economic, social, and cultural crises on a global scale. To help create safe communities, we aimed to analyze [...] Read more.
Social distancing, shutdown, and lockdown policies have recently been implemented worldwide to help slow the spread of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which has caused economic, social, and cultural crises on a global scale. To help create safe communities, we aimed to analyze the factors affecting the public’s anxiety and efficacy to overcome crises. The results show that efficacy is associated with sex, education, central government support, the public hygiene environment, and public hygiene behaviors. Anxiety was shown to have a negative relationship with central government support, a positive relationship with civilian support, and a negative relationship with efficacy. For a country to prevent the spread of a novel infectious disease, alleviate the anxiety of the population, and construct a safe community in the midst of a global pandemic, active central government support and response, protection of vulnerable populations, publicization of policies, and crisis management communication are essential. In particular, identifying an evidence-based method to understand and address the psychological and social influences of COVID-19, such as excessive fear and discrimination, providing insight into risk factors associated with future society for policy makers, and establishing potential and sustainable public health communication strategies are of paramount importance. Full article
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The Reverse Gender Gap in Volunteer Activities: Does Culture Matter?
Sustainability 2021, 13(12), 6957; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13126957 - 21 Jun 2021
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Women take on 57% (men: 43%) of all volunteering globally (UN 2018). In this paper, we follow an epidemiological approach to explore the possible role of culture in determining this reverse gender gap in the time devoted to volunteer activities. To that end, [...] Read more.
Women take on 57% (men: 43%) of all volunteering globally (UN 2018). In this paper, we follow an epidemiological approach to explore the possible role of culture in determining this reverse gender gap in the time devoted to volunteer activities. To that end, we merge data from the American Time Use Survey for the years 2006–2019 and the Gender Gap Index (GGI) of the World Economic Forum 2021. We use a sample of early-arrival first- and second-generation immigrants who live in the United States. Our empirical approach rests on the fact that all these individuals have grown up under the same host country’s labor market, regulations, laws, and institutions but differ in their cultural heritage. Thus, in this setting, gender discrepancies in the time devoted to volunteer activities can be interpreted as the effect of culture. We find that more gender-equal norms in the country of origin are associated with women devoting less time to volunteer activities relative to men. We further analyze the channels shaping the culture from the country of ancestry and the existence of horizontal (within-communities) transmission of culture. Our results are robust to the use of different subsamples and to the inclusion of demographic and socio-economic controls. Full article
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