TY - JOUR
T1 - Locus of control, social capital and transport poverty
AU - Awaworyi Churchill, Sefa
AU - Smyth, Russell
N1 - Funding Information:
This paper uses unit record data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. The HILDA project was initiated and is funded by the Australian Government Department of Social Services (DSS) and is managed by the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research (Melbourne Institute). The findings and views reported in this paper, however, are those of the authors and should not be attributed to either DSS or the Melbourne Institute. The study (project number: BL CHEAN 24020) was approved by the RMIT Business & Law College Human Ethics Advisory Network (CHEAN). All participants provided electronically signed consent. We thank both referees for helpful suggestions that have helped improve the paper. We alone are responsible for any remaining errors. Open access publishing facilitated by RMIT University, as part of the Wiley \u2010 RMIT University agreement via the Council of Australian University Librarians.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 The Authors. Economic Record published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Economic Society of Australia.
PY - 2024/9
Y1 - 2024/9
N2 - Transport poverty is a major public policy issue in many countries. However, evidence on the factors that influence transport poverty is relatively scant. We contribute to the debate on the factors that influence transport poverty by being the first to examine how locus of control (LoC) influences transport poverty. Using 15 waves of panel data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey, we find evidence to suggest that LoC influences transport poverty. Specifically, we find that being more internal on LoC is associated with a lower probability of being transport poor. This finding is robust to a suite of sensitivity and robustness checks, including different constructs of transport poverty, alternative measures of LoC, the use of an out-of-sample supplementary dataset and different estimation approaches. We find that social capital is an important factor that mediates the relationship between LoC and transport poverty.
AB - Transport poverty is a major public policy issue in many countries. However, evidence on the factors that influence transport poverty is relatively scant. We contribute to the debate on the factors that influence transport poverty by being the first to examine how locus of control (LoC) influences transport poverty. Using 15 waves of panel data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey, we find evidence to suggest that LoC influences transport poverty. Specifically, we find that being more internal on LoC is associated with a lower probability of being transport poor. This finding is robust to a suite of sensitivity and robustness checks, including different constructs of transport poverty, alternative measures of LoC, the use of an out-of-sample supplementary dataset and different estimation approaches. We find that social capital is an important factor that mediates the relationship between LoC and transport poverty.
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U2 - 10.1111/1475-4932.12809
DO - 10.1111/1475-4932.12809
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85192139355
SN - 0013-0249
VL - 100
SP - 283
EP - 316
JO - Economic Record
JF - Economic Record
IS - 330
ER -