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Predicting road conditions with internet search

Askitas, Nikos - 2015

Traffic jams are an important problem both on an individual and on a societal level and much research has been done on trying to explain their emergence. The mainstream approach to road traffic monitoring is based on crowdsourcing roaming GPS devices such as cars or cell phones. These systems...

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Measuring national life satisfaction with music

Benetos, Emmanouil; Ragano, Alessandro; Sgroi, Daniel; … - 2021

National life satisfaction is an important way to measure societal well-being and since 2011 has been used to judge the effectiveness of government policy across the world. However, there is a paucity of historical data making limiting long-run comparisons with other data. We construct a new...

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The effect of sport in online dating: evidence from causal machine learning

Boller, Daniel; Lechner, Michael; Okasa, Gabriel - 2021

Online dating emerged as a key platform for human mating. Previous research focused on socio-demographic characteristics to explain human mating in online dating environments, neglecting the commonly recognized relevance of sport. This research investigates the effect of sport activity on human...

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The diversity of personnel practices and firm performance

Martins, Pedro S. - 2016

Personnel economics tends be based on single-firm case studies. Here we examine the personnel practices of nearly 5,000 firms, over a period of 20 years, using detailed matched employer-employee panel data from Portugal. In the spirit of Baker et al. (1994a,b), we consider different dimensions...

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Trust predicts compliance with COVID-19 containment policies : evidence from ten countries using Big Data

Sarracino, Francesco; Greyling, Talita; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2022

Previous evidence indicates trust is an important correlate of compliance with COVID-19 containment policies. However, this conclusion hinges on two crucial assumptions: first, that compliance does not change over time, and second, that mobility or self-reported measures are good proxies for...

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The transformation of public policy analysis in times of crisis : a microsimulation-nowcasting method using Big Data

O'Donoghue, Cathal; Sologon, Denisa M. - 2023

The urgency of the two crises, especially the COVID-19 pandemic, revealed the inadequacy of traditional statistical datasets and models to provide a timely support to the decision-making process in times of volatility. Drawing upon advances in data analytics for public policy and the increasing...

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Civility and trust in social media

Antoci, Angelo; Bonelli, Laura; Paglieri, Fabio; … - 2018

the environment of social networking sites hostile to many users. We conduct a novel experiment in a Facebook setting to … that participants exposed to civil Facebook interaction are significantly more trusting. In contrast, when the use of … Facebook is accompanied by the experience of online incivility, no significant changes occur in users' behavior. These results …

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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 … Belgium. The only characteristic in which these candidates differ is the unique Facebook profile that can be found online with … their name. Candidates with the most beneficial Facebook picture obtain approximately 39% more job interview invitations …

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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

within-country disparities. We use social-media data - Facebook interests - to construct novel regional measures of patience …

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Big data is a big deal but how much data do we need?

Askitas, Nikos - 2016

The more conservative among us believe that "Big Data is a fad that will soon fade out" and they may in fact be partially right. By contrast, others - especially those who dispassionately note that digitization is only now beginning to deliver its payload - may beg to differ. We argue that all...

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