This paper asks which sub-groups of the population are affected by the payment of a small cash incentive to respond to a telephone survey. We find that an incentive improves response rates primarily amongst those individuals with the longest history of income support receipt. Importantly, these...

This paper asks which sub-groups of the population are affected by the payment of a small cash incentive to respond to a telephone survey. We find that an incentive improves response rates primarily amongst those individuals with the longest history of income support receipt. Importantly, these...

What can we, as users of microdata, formally guarantee to the individuals (or firms) in our dataset, regarding their privacy? We retell a few stories, well-known in data-privacy circles, of failed anonymization attempts in publicly released datasets. We then provide a mostly informal...

A standing issue is how to measure bias in Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. We devise a novel method of sampling, bootstrapping, and impersonation that addresses concerns about the inherent randomness of LLMs and test if it can capture political bias in ChatGPT. Our results indicate...

What can we, as users of microdata, formally guarantee to the individuals (or firms) in our dataset, regarding their privacy? We retell a few stories, well-known in data-privacy circles, of failed anonymization attempts in publicly released datasets. We then provide a mostly informal...

The co-authored paper aims to address the contemporary ‘smart city' construct limitations, challenges and paradoxes from a threefold perspective: philological, economic, and inter/transdisciplinary per se. The three co-authors will address the topic from their respective...

English Abstract: Moving towards a low carbon economy will provide safe and sustainable energy for Central and Eastern Europe. This paper discusses the current renewable landscape in CEE EU member countries, with particular analysis on wind energy. The focus here is especially from an economic...

Urban poor households have limited resources (the tangible and intangible assets), which helps them make a living and fight against odds, they face. Addiction (substance abuse) is one such problem which is widely prevalent in urban poor households. In this paper an attempt has been made to...

This article updates, expands and revises the author's previous works concerning gender in sentencing in light of Booker. It describes the dramatic increase of the female incarcerated population in the federal system due primarily to drug offenses. It discusses the Guidelines concerted effort to...

Purpose This study attempts to examine the effects of social maladjustment and social loneliness on suicidal behavior among North Korean refugee women in South Korea, and to verify the effects of social welfare programs designed to prevent suicidal behavior among these population. Methods The...