Transnational Cultural Symbols

A set of selected photographs of different protest signs used during the first wave of protests (January–February, 2017). This set was constructed by collecting photographs of protests from online archives assembled by local bloggers and news media (e.g. https://www.lozinici.ro, http://www.ziare.com, and http://www.artofprotest.ro) and from Instagram, by harvesting images posted with one of the popular hashtags during these events (e.g. #altaintrebare, #coruptiaucide, #neamsaturat, #romaniatrezeste, #romaniainstrada)

Transnational Cultural Symbols

A set of selected photographs of different protest signs used during the first wave of protests (January–February, 2017). This set was constructed by collecting photographs of protests from online archives assembled by local bloggers and news media (e.g. https://www.lozinici.ro, http://www.ziare.com, and http://www.artofprotest.ro) and from Instagram, by harvesting images posted with one of the popular hashtags during these events (e.g. #altaintrebare, #coruptiaucide, #neamsaturat, #romaniatrezeste, #romaniainstrada)

Historical Data: International monthly government bond returns

Academics and research analysts in financial economics frequently use returns on government bonds for their empirical analyses. In the United States, government bonds are also called Treasury bonds. The Federal Reserve publishes the yield-to-maturity of Treasury bonds. However, the Treasury bond returns earned by investors are not publicly available. The purpose of this study is to provide these currently not publicly available return series and provide formulas such that these series can easily be updated by researchers. We use standard textbook formulas to convert the yield-to-maturity data to investor returns. The starting date of our series is January 1962, when end-of-month data on the yield-to-maturity become publicly available. We compare our newly created total return series with alternative series that can be purchased. Our return series are very close, suggesting that they are a high-quality public alternative to commercially available data. This data set calculates monthly returns for: United States (starting 1947) Germany (starting 1972) Japan (starting 1974) Australia (starting 1969) France (starting 1987) Canada (starting 1986) UK (starting 1970) Norway (starting 1921) Sweden (starting 1920) Data updated unitl December 2022

Happiness in the Daily Socio-Cultural Integration Process: A day Reconstruction Study among American Immigrants in Germany

Many immigrants struggle to integrate into host societies, despite the frequent long-term benefits of integration for immigrants and host societies. This article aims to increase understandings of immigrants’ experiences and obstacles in the daily socio-cultural integration process by examining the understudied impact of daily integration behaviors on momentary happiness. The daily experiences of 213 immigrants from the United States in Germany were captured, using a day reconstruction method. Our panel fixed-effects estimates show that immigrants who were not fluent in the host country's majority language generally felt happier when communicating in their mother tongue, as opposed to the majority language. Moreover, interacting with majority group members negatively affected the momentary happiness of less culturally integrated immigrants. By contrast, socio-cultural integration related positively to immigrants’ enduring happiness. Our results suggest that socio-cultural integration is an investment involving short-term costs to happiness, with important daily obstacles being the cost to momentary happiness of speaking the majority language and, to a lesser extent, interacting with majority group members. We argue that integration behaviors’ short-term costs also occur in many other migration contexts. The revealed short-term costs can increase understandings of immigrants’ integration struggles and related outcomes, including segregation and loneliness, and decreasing the costs may improve socio-cultural integration trajectories

sj-dta-1-mrx-10.1177_01979183221149022 - Supplemental material for Happiness in the Daily Socio-Cultural Integration Process: A day Reconstruction Study among American Immigrants in Germany

Supplemental material, sj-dta-1-mrx-10.1177_01979183221149022 for Happiness in the Daily Socio-Cultural Integration Process: A day Reconstruction Study among American Immigrants in Germany by Martijn Hendriks and Randall Birnberg in International Migration Revie

sj-dta-2-mrx-10.1177_01979183221149022 - Supplemental material for Happiness in the Daily Socio-Cultural Integration Process: A day Reconstruction Study among American Immigrants in Germany

Supplemental material, sj-dta-2-mrx-10.1177_01979183221149022 for Happiness in the Daily Socio-Cultural Integration Process: A day Reconstruction Study among American Immigrants in Germany by Martijn Hendriks and Randall Birnberg in International Migration Revie

Replication data for: Testing Ambiguity Models through the Measurement of Probabilities for Gains and Losses

This paper reports on two experiments that test the descriptive validity of ambiguity models using a natural source of uncertainty (the evolution of stock indices) and both gains and losses. We observed violations of probabilistic sophistication, violations that imply a fourfold pattern of ambiguity attitudes: ambiguity aversion for likely gains and unlikely losses and ambiguity seeking for unlikely gains and likely losses. Our data are most consistent with prospect theory and, to a lesser extent, α-maxmin expected utility and Choquet expected utility. Models with uniform ambiguity attitudes are inconsistent with most of the observed behavioral patterns. (JEL D81, D83, G11, G12, G14

Between the fragmentation and institutionalisation of migration studies: VOSViewer map and network data

Data obtained from Web of Science and exported from VOSViewer on international co-authorships in migration research, 1998-2018

Replication data for: Paging Inspector Sands: The Costs of Public Information

We exploit the introduction of pedestrian countdown signals—timers that indicate when traffic lights will change—to evaluate a policy that improves the information of all market participants. We find that although countdown signals reduce the number of pedestrians struck by automobiles, they increase the number of collisions between automobiles. They also cause more collisions overall, implying that welfare gains can be attained by hiding the information from drivers. Whereas most empirical studies on the role of information in markets suggest that asymmetric information reduces welfare, we conclude that asymmetric information can, in fact, improve it

Visualizing climate change: an exploratory study of the effectiveness of artistic information visualizations

Artists creatively use scientific data in artistic information visualizations (AIVs) to address climate change. Yet, it is unclear how effective they are in making viewers consider climate change as important. To assess their reception, this research studies and compares AIVs in relation to four additional visual forms, which are common in the communication of climate change (information visualizations, news photos, digital art visuals and cartoons). Qualitative research consisting of a short survey, q-sort and semi-structured interviews was employed. Some AIVs were judged clearer and more agreed with than other AIVs, suggesting that a less abstract AIV style might be more suitable. In comparison to the other visual forms, the artistic information visualizations were the least effective in making viewers consider climate change as important. It appears that artists’ free choice of data focus and artistic styles faces limits when depicting a complex topic such as climate change. A need for clarity or accompanying descriptions to the visualizations, at least when targeted at the general public without art training, might be necessary. The study did not show distrust in art’s involvement in the climate change discourse