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Response rates of online surveys in published research: A meta-analysis Open
The response rates of online surveys were often examined in the literature by comparing to other modes of surveys. Questions regarding what constitutes a respectable response rate for online surveys in research remained unanswered. To fill…
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Projecting social contact matrices in 152 countries using contact surveys and demographic data Open
Heterogeneities in contact networks have a major effect in determining whether a pathogen can become epidemic or persist at endemic levels. Epidemic models that determine which interventions can successfully prevent an outbreak need to acc…
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Gender differences in COVID-19 attitudes and behavior: Panel evidence from eight countries Open
Significance Public health response to COVID-19 requires behavior changes—isolation at home, wearing masks. Its effectiveness depends on generalized compliance. Original data from two waves of a survey conducted in March−April 2020 in eigh…
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Explaining the salience of anti-elitism and reducing political corruption for political parties in Europe with the 2014 Chapel Hill Expert Survey data Open
This article addresses the variation of anti-corruption and anti-elite salience in party positioning across Europe. It demonstrates that while anti-corruption salience is primarily related to the (regional) context in which a party operate…
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Why Working from Home Will Stick Open
COVID-19 drove a mass social experiment in working from home (WFH). We survey more than 30,000 Americans over multiple waves to investigate whether WFH will stick, and why. Our data say that 20 percent of full workdays will be supplied fro…
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The effect of COVID‐19 lockdowns on political support: Some good news for democracy? Open
Major crises can act as critical junctures or reinforce the political status quo, depending on how citizens view the performance of central institutions. We use an interrupted time series to study the political effect of the enforcement of…
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EU Kids Online 2020: survey results from 19 countries Open
This report presents the findings from a survey of children aged 9–16 from 19 European countries. The data were collected between autumn 2017 and summer 2019 from 25,101 children by national teams from the EU Kids Online network. A theoret…
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How is COVID-19 reshaping activity-travel behavior? Evidence from a comprehensive survey in Chicago Open
The novel COVID-19 pandemic has caused upheaval around the world and has led to drastic changes in our daily routines. Long-established routines such as commuting to workplace and in-store shopping are being replaced by telecommuting and o…
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Capturing consumer engagement: duality, dimensionality and measurement Open
This study advances the conceptualisation and operationalisation of consumer engagement in the context of online brand communities (OBCs). Past scholarship has only partially addressed the dimensionality of engagement and the different eng…
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The Economic Consequences of Hospital Admissions Open
We use an event study approach to examine the economic consequences of hospital admissions for adults in two datasets: survey data from the Health and Retirement Study, and hospitalization data linked to credit reports. For non-elderly adu…
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The Dark Energy Survey: Data Release 1 Open
We describe the first public data release of the Dark Energy Survey, DES DR1, consisting of reduced single-epoch images, co-added images, co-added source catalogs, and associated products and services assembled over the first 3 yr of DES s…
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Generalizing from Survey Experiments Conducted on Mechanical Turk: A Replication Approach Open
To what extent do survey experimental treatment effect estimates generalize to other populations and contexts? Survey experiments conducted on convenience samples have often been criticized on the grounds that subjects are sufficiently dif…
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The Cost of the Covid-19 Crisis: Lockdowns, Macroeconomic Expectations, and Consumer Spending Open
We study how the differential timing of local lockdowns due to COVID-19 causally affects households' spending and macroeconomic expectations at the local level using several waves of a customized survey with more than 10,000 respondents.Ab…
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Beyond protest and discontent: A cross‐national analysis of the effect of populist attitudes and issue positions on populist party support Open
Studies on populist parties – or ‘supply‐side populism’ more generally – are numerous. Nevertheless, the connection with demand‐side dynamics, and particularly the populist characteristics or tendencies of the electorate, requires more sch…
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Examining Factors Impacting Online Survey Response Rates in Educational Research: Perceptions of Graduate Students Open
Background: In educational research, online survey has become one of the most popular methods of data collection. Academic researchers, including faculty and students, expect and require a good response rate to their research projects for …
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Consequences of Routine Work-Schedule Instability for Worker Health and Well-Being Open
Research on precarious work and its consequences overwhelmingly focuses on the economic dimension of precarity, epitomized by low wages. But the rise in precarious work also involves a major shift in its temporal dimension, such that many …
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Inflation Expectations, Learning, and Supermarket Prices: Evidence from Survey Experiments Open
Information frictions play a central role in the formation of household inflation expectations, but there is no consensus about their origins. We address this question with novel evidence from survey experiments. We document two main findi…
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Overview and Methods for the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System — United States, 2019 Open
Health risk behaviors practiced during adolescence often persist into adulthood and contribute to the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the United States. Youth health behavior data at the national, state, territorial, tribal, a…
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What are the biggest obstacles to growth of SMEs in developing countries? – An empirical evidence from an enterprise survey Open
SMEs are drivers of economic growth and job creation in developing countries. It is paramount to determine the factors that hinder their growth. This paper uses the Enterprise Survey from the World Bank which covers data from 119 developin…
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Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on rural America Open
Significance Rural people have been left out of the vast majority of research on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. As such, our evidence-based understanding of the pandemic in the United States is incomplete, and rural recovery policie…
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Web Versus Other Survey Modes: An Updated and Extended Meta-Analysis Comparing Response Rates Open
Do web surveys still yield lower response rates compared with other survey modes? To answer this question, we replicated and extended a meta-analysis done in 2008 which found that, based on 45 experimental comparisons, web surveys had an 1…
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Trust in government regarding COVID-19 and its associations with preventive health behaviour and prosocial behaviour during the pandemic: a cross-sectional and longitudinal study Open
Background The effective implementation of government policies and measures for controlling the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic requires compliance from the public. This study aimed to examine cross-sectional and longitudinal …
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Satellite-based assessment of yield variation and its determinants in smallholder African systems Open
Significance Improvements in agricultural productivity in developing countries are thought to play a key role in poverty reduction. Unfortunately, such productivity remains poorly measured throughout much of the world, hampering efforts to…
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COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs, health behaviors, and policy support Open
Conspiracy theories have been proliferating during the COVID-19 pandemic. Evidence suggests that belief in conspiracy theories undermines engagement in pro-health behaviors and support for public health policies. Moreover, previous work su…
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Guide to the design and application of online questionnaire surveys Open
Collecting research data through traditional approaches (face-to-face, postal or telephone survey) can be costly and time consuming. The emerging data collection approach based on internet/e-based technologies (e.g. online platforms and em…
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Political trust during the Covid‐19 pandemic: Rally around the flag or lockdown effects? Open
How can we explain the rise in diffuse political support during the Covid‐19 pandemic? Recent research has argued that the lockdown measures generated political support. In contrast, I argue that the intensity of the pandemic rallied peopl…
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Disparities in Wealth by Race and Ethnicity in the 2019 Survey of Consumer Finances Open
New data from the 2019 Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) show that long-standing and substantial wealth disparities between families in different racial and ethnic groups were little changed since the last survey in 2016; the typical White…
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Ranking Firms Using Revealed Preference* Open
This article estimates workers' preferences for firms by studying the structure of employer-to-employer transitions in U.S. administrative data. The article uses a tool from numerical linear algebra to measure the central tendency of worke…
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Potential Biases in Big Data: Omitted Voices on Social Media Open
While big data offer exciting opportunities to address questions about social behavior, studies must not abandon traditionally important considerations of social science research such as data representativeness and sampling biases. Many bi…
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A new kernel density estimator for accurate home‐range and species‐range area estimation Open
Summary Kernel density estimators are widely applied to area‐related problems in ecology, from estimating the home range of an individual to estimating the geographic range of a species. Currently, area estimates are obtained indirectly, b…