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Civility and trust in social media
Antoci, Angelo; Bonelli, Laura; Paglieri, Fabio; … - 2018
Social media have been credited with the potential of reinvigorating trust by offering new opportunities for social and political participation. This view has been recently challenged by the rising phenomenon of online incivility, which has made the environment of social networking sites hostile...
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Do they find you on Facebook? : Facebook profile picture and hiring chances
Baert, Stijn - 2015
We investigate whether the publicly available information on Facebook about job applicants affects employers' hiring decisions. To this end, we conduct a field experiment in which fictitious job applications are sent to real job openings in Belgium. The only characteristic in which these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408193
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Daily use of social media is associated with more body dissatisfaction of teenage girls in a large cross-cultural survey
Napp, Clotilde; Breda, Thomas - 2022
between social media daily usage and body dissatisfaction among a sample of more than 50,000 15 y.o. students. This relation … social networks consumption by students' or students' peers' internet access at home while controlling finely for other … students' or students' peers' household characteristics suggests that the relationship between social media consumption and …
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The behavioral, economic, and political impact of the internet and social media : empirical challenges and approaches
Sabatini, Fabio - 2023
This paper presents a review of empirical methods used to assess the behavioral, economic, and political outcomes of Internet and social media usage. Instead of merely surveying the various impacts of the Internet, we examine the methods adopted to identify these impacts. We describe two main...
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Can patience account for subnational differences in student achievement? : regional analysis with Facebook interests
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Kinne, Lavinia; Sancassani, Pietro; … - 2023
Decisions to invest in human capital depend on people's time preferences. We show that differences in patience are closely related to substantial subnational differences in educational achievement, leading to new perspectives on longstanding within-country disparities. We use social-media data -...
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Can interactive online training make high school students more entrepreneurial? : experimental evidence from Rwanda
Lafortune, Jeanne; Pugatch, Todd; Tessada, José A.; … - 2022
We study the short-run effects of a gamified online entrepreneurship training offered to high school students in Rwanda … business than participants in control schools. The training induced students to participate more actively in their school … students to sustain their business activities during the COVID-19 crisis. …
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Online teaching, procrastination and students' achievement: evidence from COVID-19 Induced remote learning
De Paola, Maria; Gioia, Francesca; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2022
learning. This paper investigates the impact produced by this shift on students' performance. We use administrative data of … four cohorts of students enrolled in an Italian University and adopt a difference-in-differences strategy exploiting the … face-to-face in the first semester. We compare students' performance in the second semester of 2020 with their performance …
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Zooming to class?: experimental evidence on college students' online learning during COVID-19
Kofoed, Michael S.; Gebhart, Lucas; Gilmore, Dallas; … - 2021
2020, we randomized 551 West Point students in a required Introductory Economics course across twelve instructors to either … an online or in-person class. Final grades for online students dropped by 0.215 standard deviations; a result apparent in … both assignments and exams and largest for academically at-risk students. A post-course survey finds that online students …
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A year of pandemic: levels, changes and validity of well-being data from Twitter : evidence from ten countries
Sarracino, Francesco; Greyling, Talita; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2021
National Happiness (GNH), a country-level index built applying sentiment analysis to data from Twitter. We aim to describe how … the data sourced from Twitter, we exploit various survey data sources, such as the Eurobarometer and consumer satisfaction …
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Biases in student evaluations of teaching: an American case study
Radchenko, Natalia - 2020
the (un)happiest students into survey participation since the recent switch to the online format with voluntary … the unidimensionality of the SET answers: various SET items convey uniform content (satisfaction with students' in … gender and penalty to teaching very weak students are particularly strong. Use of recent and large American data** raises the …
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