3,005 research outputs found

    Understanding Willingness to Share Smartphone-Sensor Data

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    The growing smartphone penetration and the integration of smartphones into people’s everyday practices offer researchers opportunities to augment survey measurement with smartphone-sensor measurement or to replace self-reports. Potential benefits include lower measurement error, a widening of research questions, collection of in situ data, and a lowered respondent burden. However, privacy considerations and other concerns may lead to nonparticipation. To date, little is known about the mechanisms of willingness to share sensor data by the general population, and no evidence is available concerning the stability of willingness. The present study focuses on survey respondents’ willingness to share data collected using smartphone sensors (GPS, camera, and wearables) in a probability-based online panel of the general population of the Netherlands. A randomized experiment varied study sponsor, framing of the request, the emphasis on control over the data collection process, and assurance of privacy and confidentiality. Respondents were asked repeatedly about their willingness to share the data collected using smartphone sensors, with varying periods before the second request. Willingness to participate in sensor-based data collection varied by the type of sensor, study sponsor, order of the request, respondent’s familiarity with the device, previous experience with participating in research involving smartphone sensors, and privacy concerns. Willingness increased when respondents were asked repeatedly and varied by sensor and task. The timing of the repeated request, one month or six months after the initial request, did not have a significant effect on willingness

    Using Motivational Statements in Web-Instrument Design to Reduce Item-Missing Rates in a Mixed-Mode Context

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    Web questionnaires, including those used in mixed-mode surveys, generally produce higher levels of item nonresponse than interviewer-administered questionnaires. Item nonresponse is generally seen as having a detrimental impact on data quality. The current study examines using motivational statements to reduce item nonresponse in a web survey component of a mixed-mode design. The effects of alternative implementations are compared, both for web surveys and for mixed-mode surveys. In addition, the mixed-mode results are compared to a face-to-face survey. The current study adds to the literature on the use of motivational statements by using a unique large-scale randomized experiment to examine the impact of the timing of the motivational statement, and to compare with the same survey in an interviewer-administered context. Findings show that a motivational statement following immediately after an item is left unanswered greatly outperforms either the control or a motivational statement at a later point in the survey. Using this immediate reactive prompt reduces item nonresponse to levels equivalent to a face-to-face version. Conversely, the control (no statement) and later placed motivational statement lead to significantly greater item nonresponse. Point estimates for the tested variables are not affected by the additional responses obtained. The results suggest practical design implications to reduce item nonresponse when using a web design, specifically the use of a reactive motivational prompt in a planned way

    Soziologie und Ă–konomie: Der Beitrag experimenteller Wirtschaftsforschung zur Sozialtheorie*

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    Zusammenfassung: Der Artikel diskutiert Befunde aus der experimentellen Wirtschaftsforschung, die an klassischen soziologischen Erkenntnissen anknüpfen. Insbesondere werden Studien zum Altruismus, über Reziprozität, soziale Normen und Sanktionen behandelt und der Beitrag dieser Studien zur Weiterentwicklung der Sozialtheorie herausgearbeitet. Darüber hinaus werden methodische Aspekte angesprochen und es wird dafür plädiert, dass die Soziologie sich wieder darauf besinnen sollte, dass zur Methodenvielfalt auch Experimente und Feldexperimente gehören. Ökonomen auf der anderen Seite sollten den interdisziplinären Charakter des Forschungsprogramms stärker betonen, an dem Forscherinnen und Forscher verschiedener Disziplinen beteiligt sin

    The Lifework of a Labor Historian: Essays in Honor of Marcel van der Linden

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    The Life Work of a Labor Historian: Essays in honor of Marcel van der Linden, presents the latest developments in the global history of labor, work and workers, and of capitalism and its critics. Readership: All interested in (global) history of labor, including all types of work and workers free and unfree and labour protest as well as anyone concerned with the history Marxism and capitalism and its critics

    Faculty Publications and Creative Works 1999

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    One of the ways in which we recognize our faculty at the University of New Mexico is through Faculty Publications & Creative Works. An annual publication, it highlights our faculty\u27s scholarly and creative activities and achievements and serves as a compendium of UNM faculty efforts during the 1999 calendar year. Faculty Publications & Creative Works strives to illustrate the depth and breadth of research activities performed throughout our University\u27s laboratories, studios and classrooms. We believe that the communication of individual research is a significant method of sharing concepts and thoughts and ultimately inspiring the birth of new ideas. In support of this, UNM faculty during 1999 produced over 2,292 works, including 1,837 scholarly papers and articles, 78 books, 82 book chapters, 175 reviews, 113 creative works and 7 patented works. We are proud of the accomplishments of our faculty which are in part reflected in this book, which illustrates the diversity of intellectual pursuits in support of research and education at the University of New Mexico

    Economics of Religion

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    Systematic Cluster: 1. The financing of religions in works that are mainly historical in method and perspective. 2. The relationship between religion and economy with regard to a culture theory. Examines, for instance, how religious beliefs and economic behaviour are a component of the mentality that influences a culture; how modernity and capitalism can be inter-twined or how economic metaphors are employed in religious language. Many works from economics of anthropology but also from history of economic culture and and gen-eral sociology. 3. Economic theories as a subject of the study of religion (literature on leadership, manage-ment on on consumerism, the market or communism as religion; the topic of religious economies). 4. Economic theories as a model of the study of religion. 01. Macro- or Microeconomics in general (e.g. Macroeconomics: religion and eco-nomic growth; Microeconomics: Financing, process management etc.) 02. Neo-classical Paradigm, Rational Choice Economics of Religion, Sociological Market theory (e.g. G. Becker, R. Stark, W.S. Bainbridge, R. Finke, L. Iannaccone, M. McBride) 03. Behavioral Economics and Game Theory 04. Neo-Institutionalist Theory (from sociological, political science or economic per-spective) 05. Economic Sociology in a narrower sens

    Faculty Publications and Creative Works 2002

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    Introduction One of the ways in which we recognize our faculty at the University of New Mexico is through Faculty Publications & Creative Works. An annual publication, it highlights our faculty\u27s scholarly and creative activities and achievements and serves as a compendium of UNM faculty efforts during the 2001 calendar year. Faculty Publications & Creative Works strives to illustrate the depth and breadth of research activities performed throughout our University\u27s laboratories, studios and classrooms. We believe that the communication of individual research is a significant method of sharing concepts and thoughts and ultimately inspiring the birth of new ideas. In support of this, UNM faculty during 2002 produced over 2,278 works, including 1,735 scholarly papers and articles, 64 books, 195 book chapters, 174 reviews, 84 creative works and 26 patented works. We are proud of the accomplishments of our faculty which are in part reflected in this book, which illustrates the diversity of intellectual pursuits in support of research and education at the University of New Mexico. Terry Yates Vice Provost for Researc
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