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Campus loans have become a part of the lives of Chinese college students. While such loans are convenient for students, they can also create considerable difficulties. In the context of unbalanced economic development between Western and Eastern China, this study aimed to understand the factors affecting the campus loan behaviors of college students in Western China. A sample of 568 undergraduate and graduate students from four universities in Western China was taken as the research object. Binary logistic regression and orderly logistic regression were used to study campus loan consumption factors. Students without state-subsidized loans were found to have stronger campus loan consumption intention and higher loan amounts, and recreational consumption was the main loan purpose. The factors affecting campus loan consumption included students’ family structure, parents’ education level, peer students’ consumption status, grade level, relationship status, and ability to assess loan risk. Based on the findings, suggestions are made for managing campus loan behavior from the perspectives of the individual, family, school, and government. This study can provide guidance for standardizing campus loans and adjusting college students’ consumption attitudes and behaviors.

While conventional wisdom has stated that greater risks typically bring greater rewards, many studies have shown that this is not generally true for the financial state of firms. This paradox, known as Bowman’s paradox has motivated studies to examine this relationship across different industries, periods, and nations. However, most of these studies have focused on Western countries such as Belgium and the United States of America. Therefore, this paper contributes to the literature by investigating the generalizability of Bowman’s paradox and prospect theory across three distinct Eastern countries. Data is collected from 10,623 firms located in China, Japan, and Vietnam. Cross- sectional and longitudinal associations between risk and return provided general support for Bowman’s paradox and prospect theory for the three Eastern countries. The results indicate that there is a general negative risk-return relationship for firms in these countries. Further analyses show that this relationship is stronger for firms performing below the industry median. This might suggest that firms that are in trouble usually take more risks. This relationship is strongest for firms in Japan, followed by firms in China and Vietnam, respectively.

Slash has become a new phenomenon and practice as a growing number of youth, no longer in long-term employment with clear future security, create a contingent combination of careers. Its recent prevalence in China marks a visible consequence of the national restructuring policy of labor flexibilization over the past decades. Dismantling of the historical norm of full employment, encouragement of flexible digital economy, short-life expectancy of new businesses, and generalized insecurity due to intense competition at individual level, are the major factors contributing to the emergence and expansion of slash youth. Based on empirical and ethnographic evidences, this article identifies the complexity, diversity, and creativity embodied in individual slash experiences, suggesting that slash youth are stratified and they demonstrate differentiated ability to translate uncertainties into opportunities under the condition of individualization. This article is part of the special issue Creative Labour in East Asia.

Background The health workforce is a key determinant in achieving health equity. As a southwestern province of China, Sichuan confronted with the geographical variation of health workforce in recent years. The misdistribution of health workforce in Sichuan is severe for its complex terrain, uneven population distribution and huge economic differences. The study of Sichuan province is of great significance to other regions of China. Methods This study applied time-series analysis, spatial autocorrelation and space-time scan analysis to explore and visualize the spatial changing patterns of different types of health workforce (health technicians, licensed doctors, registered nurses, pharmacists, technologists, and intern) at the municipal and county level in Sichuan. Results The box plots displayed the temporal trend of health workforce from 2009 to 2018 via the county-level data. All types of health workforce were in rising generally especially the registered nurses. The space-time analysis and Global Moran' I revealed the distinctive geographical clusters among all the counties. The local Moran' I detected that HH clusters mainly in the capital and some rich places of Sichuan, while some mountain areas in eastern Sichuan displayed LL clusters. Four main findings should be paid attention to the whole health workforce of Sichuan province had an upward trend. Comparing with other provinces, the growth rate also was in a high rank; the areas with the scarcest resources were eastern place, including areas of Tsinling Mountains, Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, Hengduan Mountains and the transition zone of mountains and basins; misdistribution of health workforce had two levels, among the province and cities; the Qinghai Tibet Plateau has enough intern while being short of other health technicians. Conclusions The policies makers should pay more attention to the eastern Sichuan. As to the intern-related policies, the primary health tasks did not achieve, Qinghai Tibet Plateau areas needed to find practical ways to attract the interns