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The Internet as a Data Source for Advancement in Social Sciences

Askitas, Nikos - 2015

This paper advocates the use of Internet data for social sciences with a special focus on human resources issues. It discusses the potentials and challenges of Internet data for social sciences and presents a selection of the relevant literature to establish the wide spectrum of topics, which...

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Microdata for Social Sciences and Policy Evaluation as a Public Good

Trivellato, Ugo - 2017

The balance between the right to privacy and the right to freedom of information is altered when scientific research comes into play, because of its inherent needs and societal function. This paper argues that, for research purposes, microdata should be characterised as a public good. The...

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The New Economics of Religion

Iyer, Sriya - 2021

The economics of religion is a relatively new field of research in economics. This survey serves two purposes – it is backward-looking in that it traces the historical and sociological origins of this field, and it is forward-looking in that it examines the insights and research themes that...

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Lab Experiments are a Major Source of Knowledge in the Social Sciences

Falk, Armin - 2009

Laboratory experiments are a widely used methodology for advancing causal knowledge in the physical and life sciences. With the exception of psychology, the adoption of laboratory experiments has been much slower in the social sciences, although during the last two decades, the use of lab...

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A Web Survey Analysis of the Subjective Well-Being of Spanish Workers

Guzi, Martin - 2013

This paper makes use of a large sample of individual data obtained from web surveys in the WageIndicator project. Data includes extensive information on the quality of working conditions together with different well-being indicators. The paper emphasizes the role of work-related characteristics...

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Adjusting Body Mass for Measurement Error with Invalid Validation Data

Courtemanche, Charles - 2014

We propose a new method for using validation data to correct self-reported weight and height in surveys that do not weigh and measure respondents. The standard correction from prior research regresses actual measures on reported values using an external validation dataset, and then uses the...

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Health Disparities Across Education : The Role of Differential Reporting Error

Cawley, John - 2015

One of the most robust findings in health economics is that higher-educated individuals tend to be in better health. This paper tests whether health disparities across education are to some extent due to differences in reporting error across education. We test this hypothesis using data from the...

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Survey Design and the Determinants of Subjective Wellbeing : An Experimental Analysis

Holford, Angus - 2015

We analyse the results of experiments on questionnaire design and interview mode in the first four waves (2008-11) of … questions within the interview. We find significant evidence of an influence of interview mode and question design on the …

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Informing Migration Policies : A Data Primer

Carletto, Calogero - 2015

Researchers in many fields, such as demography, economics, and sociology, have established various data collection methodologies and principles to answer a range of academic and policy questions on migration. Although the progress has been impressive, some basic challenges remain. This paper...

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As Rare as a Panda' : How Facial Attractiveness, Gender, and Occupation Affect Interview Callbacks at Chinese Firms

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - 2014

across four occupations in 6 Chinese cities.We find sizable differences in the interview callback rates of attractive and … counterparts to obtain the same number of interview callbacks. Women are preferred to men in three of our four occupations. Women … on average need to put in only 91% as many applications as men to obtain the same number of interview callbacks …

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