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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Survey Experiment"”.
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Generating Prevalence Estimates of Sensitive Behaviors through List Randomization: Survey Experiment among Indian Males
<p>Survey respondents may under-report or misreport sensitive behaviors due to social desirability bias. List randomization is an indirect way of asking questions which allows respondents to answer sensitive questions without the surveyor knowing their actual response. This has emerged as a new …
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A factorial survey experiment to examine how the class background and perceived gender of job applicants influences shortlisting decisions for entry‐level academic posts in higher education in England
… in England. A between‐subjects factorial survey experiment was conducted with 166 participants from 57 universities to examine how hypothetical applications, which were identical except for markers of class and gender, were evaluated as part of a shortlisting process. The study found that, …
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Trust the Game: Gamification and the Rise of Online Conspiracy Theories
… for the argument. In chapter three, I present a survey-experiment, using the conspiracy theory that hip-hop star Tupac was not actually murdered, but that he rather faked his death to escape the pressures of stardom. Here I find statistically significant evidence that gamification increased the …
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The career pursuits of engineering students : inquiries into options, informedness, and intentions at the education-careers interface
… We empirically validated this model using survey data from a sample of 1,061 senior year engineering students. We present results showing how different occupational outcomes are associated, on average, with different student-specific characteristics. Next, we describe findings from a …
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Seeking Safety: The Cognitive Foundations of Civilian Behavior during Violence
… India. I use a 3,000-person foreign policy survey experiment that manipulates control and predictability appraisals before eliciting preferences for responses to a U.S.–China military crisis. Results from the survey experiment demonstrate the utility of situational appraisal theory beyond …
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Essays on politics and education
… I use two different empirical methods. First, a survey experiment (Paper 1): after revealing their labor expectations for one year later, and before answering questions on political behavior, respondents randomly received information on average labor outcomes of past graduates from their same …
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Moral Psychology And Political Campaigns
… increase their support in the polls. Similarly, survey experiment results suggest that Republicans and Democrats prefer candidates who emphasize different moral traits.
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Publicity-driven accountability in China
… to negative media coverage with an original survey experiment on local bureaucrats. The third empirical chapter provides case studies of contemporary activists in China wielding publicity to change the behavior of unelected officials. Publicity-driven accountability has consequences for …
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Depolarizing Environmental Policy: Identities and Public Opinion on the Environment
… policies broadly. In a first paper, I use a survey experiment to test how identity salience influences the effectiveness of a persuasive message about climate change. I find that priming a non-partisan (parental) identity decreases partisan polarization on climate change policy support, while …
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The Power of Protest Messages: An Information Model on Protest Participation in China}
… their interpretation of the messages. I used a survey experiment and a comparative text analysis of social media posts and news articles to test the information model. I found that government concession (responsiveness) can produce positive effects on audiences' participation willingness while …
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Surveys as communication : it's not just what you ask, but how you ask it
As survey rates decline, survey researchers must consider the factors leading to reductions in response rates, especially the respondent's survey-taking experience. This research sought to study the effects of question type and involvement on a number of outcomes of survey participation. …
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Investigating the effects of personalisation in email on student choice
… student choice of HEIs. A between-subject online survey experiment was designed, and participants were exposed to personalised and non-personalised email conditions. Student HEI choice was measured as student ‘intention to enrol’. <br/><br/>Findings: The study did not find significant differences …
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Adaptive Intuitions in Complex Media Environments Shape Belief in Misinformation
… adaptations to complex environments. In a large survey experiment, I test whether intuitive belief in misinformation may result from these rational adaptations by randomizing participants to be shown either a largely true or largely false news feed. I show that individuals make more frequent and …
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Liberal Attitude Reports
… from them. Chapter 2 presents the results of a survey experiment probing ordinary people’s intuitions about liberal belief reports. Chapter 3 criticizes a recent analysis of liberal desire reports due to Ethan Jerzak and suggests a way of explaining his data within a more orthodox Kratzerian …
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Essays in behavioral public economics
… location decisions using evidence from a field experiment. Second, I show that relative concerns are important in determining people's performance and participation. I do so by studying the behavior of swimmers around the time they have to change age category right after aging-up. I show that …
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The Politics of Repeal and Replace: Testing the Limits of the Affordable Care Act's Behavioral Policy Feedbacks
… mobilization. The first paper relies on survey data to examine perceptions of threat among self-reported ACA beneficiaries and how this affects political participation, while the third paper examines how threat produces behavioral change using an original survey experiment comparing …
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Four essays on risk, altruism, and social norms
… to investigate these phenomena in depth, using experimental methods to explore different scenarios. The first study examines the various classifications of nudges in the literature by creating a unified framework that takes into account different dimensions of nudges. The second study is a field …
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Property, Place, and Politics: Essays on the Political Economy of Land in South Africa
… free housing program. Drawing on a large survey from the country’s most populous province, I find the anticipated correlation between owneroccupancy and higher participation. Moreover, my results indicate that housing beneficiaries are more open than renters to punishing poorly-performing …
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Essays on the behavioral political economy of housing
… attitudes toward housing growth. I use a novel survey instrument and rich observational data on land use ballot measures in San Francisco to measure these two dimensions of political ideology, and document that localism is negatively associated with support for development projects, whereas the …
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Safety Systems, Culture, and Passengers’ Willingness to Fly in Autonomous Air Taxis
… in willingness to fly.</p> <p>A quantitative survey experiment in two studies was conducted to investigate willingness to fly in autonomous air taxis among people from the United States and India. The first study used a 2 x 2 x 2 factorial analysis to test the effects of nationality, automatic …
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