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The academic papers listed below have been written about and/or are using data collected in the Understanding America Study. When available, a download link to the underlying data is provided (registration required). Authors: if your publication is not listed here yet please contact us at uas-l@mymaillists.usc.edu). If you would like us to provide a link to the analysis data you used (e.g. if it is required as part of the publication process), please have a look at the CESR Data Management Policies And Services.
Journal Papers
- City News Service, "LA County worse off financially than average due to coronavirus, says USC study" Daily Breeze May 21 (2020)
- Jenesse Miller and Julie Labich, "Americans are changing behavior and anticipating the fallout of COVID-19" Medical XPress March 16 (2020)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 230
- M. Hitczenko, "Sample bias related to household role" Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology April 24 (2020)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 105
Book (chapters)
- Bernd Weiß, Marcel Das, Arie Kapteyn, Michael Bosnjak and Ines Schaurer, "Open Probability‐Based Panels" Wiley StatsRef: Statistics Reference Online January 7 (2020)
Working Papers
- Alberto Ciancio, Fabrice Kämpfen, Iliana V. Kohler, Daniel Bennett, Wändi Bruine de Bruin, Jill Darling, Arie Kapteyn, Jürgen Maurer and Hans-Peter Ko, " Know Your Epidemic, Know Your Response: COVID-19 in the United States" University of Pennsylvania Population Studies Center March 31 (2020)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 230
- Alexander Hermann, Christopher Herbert and Jennifer Molinksy, "The Association Between High Mortgage Debt and Financial Well-Being in Old Age" Joint Center for Housing Studies Harvard University (2020)
- C. Greene, M. Hitczenko, B. Prescott and O. Shy, "US Consumers' Use of Personal Checks: Evidence from a Diary Survey" Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta 2020-1 (2020)
- María Prados and Arie Kapteyn, "Subjective Expectations, Social Security Benefits, and the Optimal Path to Retirement" Michigan Retirement Research Center Research Paper No. 2019-405 (2020)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 72
- Parag A. Pathak, Alex Rees-Jones and Tayfun Sönmez, "Reversing Reserves" Work April 1 (2020)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 210
Journal Papers
- Arthur Stone, Marta Walentynowicz, Stefan Schneider, Doerte Junghaenel and Cheng K. Wen, "MTurk Participants Have Substantially Lower Evaluative Subjective Well-Being Than Other Survey Participants" Computers in Human Behavior Vol. 94: 1-8 (2019)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 125
- David Lauter, "On tax day, most Americans don’t feel new law made them better off" Los Angeles Times April 15 (2019)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 175
- Francisco Perez-Arce, Lila Rabinovich and Joanne Yoong, "The potential impact of policies to reduce Social Security funding shortfalls on consumers" Journal of Pension Economics & Finance November 13 (2019)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 101, UAS 100000
- Francisco Perez-Arce, Lila Rabinovich, Anya Samek and Joanne Yoong, "The effect of informational prompts about survivor benefits for spouses on Social Security claim intentions." Journal of Pension Economics & Finance November 13 (2019)
- Gianpaolo Parise and Kim Peijnenburg, "Noncognitive Abilities and Financial Distress" The Review of Financial Studies Volume 32, Issue 10 (2019)
- Janice Peterson, Barbara A. Smith and Qi Guan, "Hispanics' Knowledge of Social Security: New Evidence" Social Security Bulletin Vol. 79 No. 4 (2019)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 16
- Jim Key and Jenesse Miller, "Voters predict Trump’s reelection, but less than a third would be happy about it" USC News August 22 (2019)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 197
- Laith Alattar, Matt Messel, David Rogofsky and Mark A. Sarney, "The Use of Longitudinal Data on Social Security Program Knowledge" Social Security Bulletin Vol. 79 No. 4: 1-12 (2019)
- Lila Rabinovich and Francisco Perez-Arce, "Improving understanding of the retirement earnings test" Journal of Pension Economics & Finance pp 1–18 (2019)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 101
- Lukas Brenner, Tobias Meyll, Oscar Stolper, and Andreas Walter, "Consumer fraud victimization and financial well-being" Journal of Economic Psychology December 19 (2019)
- Marco Angrisani and Maria Casanova, "What you think you know can hurt you: under/over confidence in financial knowledge and preparedness for retirement." Journal of Pension Economics & Finance pp 1-16 (2019)
- Ray Sin, Ryan Murphy and Samantha Lamas, "Goals-Based Financial Planning: How Simple Lists Can Overcome Cognitive Blind Spots" Journal of Financial Planning Vol. 32, Iss. 7 (2019)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 150
Book (chapters)
- Anya Samek, "Advantages and disadvantages of field experiments" Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Experimental Economics pp 04–120 (2019)
- Marcel Das and Marike Knoef, "Experimental and Longitudinal Data for Scientific and Policy Research: Open Access to Data Collected" Data-Driven Policy Impact Evaluation: How Access to Microdata is Transforming Policy Design pp 131 (2019)
Conference Papers
- Ellen Peters, Mary Kate Tompkins, Melissa A. Z. Knoll, Stacy P. Ardoin, Brittany Shoots-Reinhard, and Alexa Simon Meara, "Despite high objective numeracy, lower numeric confidence relates to worse financial and medical outcomes" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America September 9 (2019)
- Joseph Briggs and Christopher Tonetti, "Risky Insurance: Insurance Portfolio Choice with Incomplete Markets" Society for Economic Dynamics 2019 Meeting Papers, No. 1388 (2019)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 118
- Richard Chard, Matthew MesselMatthew Messel, David Rogofsky and Kristi Scott, "Social construction of target population: A quantitative application of Schneider and Ingram" American Association of Behavioral and Social Sciences Annual meeting (2019)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 135
Working Papers
- Alessandra Gaia, Carli Lessof, and Mick P. Couper, "A review of new technologies and data sources for measuring household finances: Implications for total survey error" Understanding Society at the Institute for Social and Economic Research No. 2019-02 (2019)
- Anya Samek, Arie Kapteyn and Andre Gray, "Using Vignettes to Improve Understanding of Social Security and Annuities" National Bureau of Economic Research No. 26176 (2019)
- Francisco Perez-Arce, Lila Rabinovich, Joanne Yoong and Laith Alattar, "Three Little Words? The Impact of Social Security Terminology." Center For Economic and Social Research Paper No. 2019-005 (2019)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 66, UAS 100000
- Jeffrey R. Brown, Arie Kapteyn, Erzo Luttmer, Olivia S. Mitchell and Anya Samek, "Behavioral Impediments to Valuing Annuities: Complexity and Choice Bracketing" Pension Research Council March 12 (2019)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 49
- L. Kaczmirek, B. Phillips, DW Pennay, PJ Lavrakas and D. Neiger, "Building a probability-based online panel: Life in Australia" CSRM and SRC Methods Papers July (2019)
- Leandro Carvalho, Arna Olafsson and Dan Silverman, "Misfortune and Mistake: The Financial Conditions and Decision-making Ability of High-cost Loan Borrowers" National Bureau of Economic Research No. w26328 (2019)
- Lukas Brenner, Tobias Meyll, Oscar Stolper and Andreas Walter, "Consumer fraud victimization and financial well-being" Philipps-Universität Marburg Accounting & Finance Research Group (2019)
- Nikhil Datta, "Willing to Pay for Security: A Discrete Choice Experiment to Analyse Labour Supply Preferences" LSE Centre for Economic Performance No. dp1632 (2019)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 51
- Raymond Fisman, Keith Gladstone, Ilyana Kuziemko and Suresh Naidu, "Do Americans Want to Tax Wealth? Evidence from Online Surveys." (2019)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 171
- Victor Stango and Jonathan Zinman, "We Are All Behavioral, More or Less: Measuring and Using Consumer-level Behavioral Summary Statistics" National Bureau of Economic Research No. 25540 (2019)
Dissertations
- Ian Kingsbury, "Schooling and Civic Behavior: A Global Perspective" University of Arkansas Department of Education Reform (2019)
- Tobias Meyll, "Essays in Household Finance and FinTech" Justus-Liebig-University Gießen Dissertation (2019)
Journal Papers
- Brianna Middlewood, Alycia Chin, Heidi Johnson and Melissa Knoll, "Exploring the relationships between impatience, savings automation, and financial welfare" Financial Planning Review (2018)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 6
- Christina E. Bannier, Tobias Meyll, Florian Röder and Andreas Walter, "The Gender Gap in Bitcoin Literacy" Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance BSFA Working Paper Series No. 9 (2018)
- David Rogofsky, Richard E. Chard, and Joanne Yoong, "Insight into the Earned Income Tax Credit and Tax-Advantaged Retirement Savings" Social Security Bulletin Vol. 78 No. 2: 1-12 (2018)
- Gema Zamarro, Albert Cheng, and Bart Orriens, "Personality as a Predictor of Unit Nonresponse in an Internet Panel" Sociological Methods and Research January 10 (2018)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 1
- Ian Kingsbury, "Silencing the seventh trumpet: Analyzing the effect of private schooling on voting behavior" Education, Citizenship and Social Justice September 17 (2018)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 1
- Laith Alattar, Matt Messel, and David Rogofsky, "An Introduction to the Understanding America Study Internet Panel." Social Security Bulletin Vol. 78 No. 2: 13–28 (2018)
- Marcel Das and Marike Knoef, "Experimental and Longitudinal Data for Scientific and Policy Research: Open Access to Data Collected in the Longitudinal Internet Studies for the Social Sciences (LISS) Panel" Data-Driven Policy Impact Evaluation pp 131-146 (2018)
- Mirta Galesic, Wändi Bruine de Bruin, Marion Dumas, Arie Kapteyn, Jill Darling and Erik Meijer, "Asking about social circles improves election predictions" Nature Human Behaviour pp 187–193 (2018)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 71
- Custom dataset(s):
Galesic_Nature_Human_Behaviour (Login required)Book (chapters)
- Marcel Das, Arie Kapteyn and Michael Bosnjak, "Open Probability-Based Panel Infrastructures" Palgrave Macmillan pp 199-209 (2018)
- Trygve Throntveit, "Civic Renewal: James's moral equivalent of war" William James Studies pp 120-141 (2018)
Working Papers
- Anya Savikhin Samek and Arie Kapteyn, "Using Consequence Messaging to Improve Understanding of Social Security" National Bureau of Economic Research August 2-3 (2018)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 141
- Christina E. Bannier, Tobias Meyll, Florian Röder and Andreas Walter, "The Gender Gap in Bitcoin Literacy" BSFA Working Paper Series No. 9 (2018)
- Claire Greene and Joanna Stavins, "The 2016 and 2017 surveys of consumer payment choice: summary results" Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Research Data Reports No. 18-3 (2018)
- Katherine G. Carman and Angela A. Hung, "Social Security Household Benefits: Measuring Program Knowledge" University of Michigan Retirement Research Center (MRRC) WP 2018-384 (2018)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 139
- Marco Angrisani, Kevin Foster and Marcin Hitczenko, "The 2016 and 2017 Surveys of Consumer Payment Choice: Technical Appendix" Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Research Data Reports Technical Appendix (2018)
- Raynil Kumar, Tayeba Maktabi and Shaun O, "2018 Findings from the Diary of Consumer Payment Choice" Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Research Data Reports November 1 (2018)
Journal Papers
- Alexandre Mas and Amanda Pallais, "Valuing Alternative Work Arrangements" American Economic Review Vol 07 No. 12: 3722-59 (2017)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 51
- David Huffman, Raimond Maurer, and Olivia S. Mitchell., "Time discounting and economic decision-making in the older population" The Journal of the Economics of Ageing (2017)
- Gema Zamarro, Albert Cheng, M. Danish Shakeel, and Colin Hitt., "Comparing and Validating Measures of Non-cognitive Traits: Performance Task Measures and Self-Reports from a Nationally Representative Internet Panel" Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (2017)
- JoNell Strough, Wändi Bruine de Bruin, and Andrew M. Parker, "Taking the Biggest First: Age Differences in Preferences for Monetary and Hedonic Sequences" Journals of Gerontology-Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences November 15 (2017)
- Lila Rabinovich, Janice Peterson, and Barbara A. Smith, "Hispanics’ Understanding of Social Security and the Implications for Retirement Security: A Qualitative Study" Social Security Bulletin Vol. 77 No. 3 (2017)
- Peter Lynn and Annette Jäckle., "Mounting Multiple Experiments on Longitudinal Social Surveys: Design and Implementation Considerations." Understanding Society at the Institute for Social and Economic Research No. 2017-05 (2017)
- Richard Chard, David Rogofsky, and Joanne Yoong, "Wealthy or Wise: How Knowledge Influences Retirement Savings Behavior" Journal of Behavioral and Social Sciences 4:3 (2017)
- Sara Constantino, "The gig is up" Nature Human Behaviour pp 3722–3759 (2017)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 51
- Wändi Bruine de Bruin, Annika Wallin, Andrew M. Parker, JoNell Strough, and Janel Hanmer, "Effects of Anti-Versus Pro-Vaccine Narratives on Responses by Recipients Varying in Numeracy: A Cross-Sectional Survey-Based Experiment" Medical Decision Making May 5 (2017)
Conference Papers
- Joanne Yoong, Richard Chard, and David Rogofsky, "Using Informatics to Examine How Knowledge Influences Retirement Savings Behavior." The 8th International Multi-Conference on Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics. Orlando, Florida March 21 (2017)
- Laith Alattar, Jeremy Elder, and David Rogofsky., "Is Debt Good or Bad for a Comfortable Retirement? Exploring the Relationship between Consumer Debt and Retirement Preparedness" American Council on Consumer Interests (ACCI) Conference Albuquerque, New Mexico April 23 (2017)
- Mirta Galesic and Wändi Bruine de Bruin, "Perceptions of social circles shape and reflect voting intentions: A longitudinal survey. " American Association for Public Opinion Research. New Orleans, LA. May 19 (2017)
- Wändi Bruine de Bruin and Mirta Galesic, "Origins of false consensus effect in win expectations for the U.S. Presidential Election 2016" 18th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology Granada, Spain. July 6 (2017)
- Wändi Bruine de Bruin, Annika Wallin, Andrew M. Parker, JoNell Strough, and Janel Hanmer, "Effects of pro- vs. anti-vaccine narratives on responses by recipients varying in numeracy: A cross-sectional survey-based experiment" Annual European conference of the Society for Risk Analysis Lisbon, Portugal. June 21 (2017)
Working Papers
- Alexandre Mas and Amanda Pallais., "Labor Supply and the Value of Non-Work Time: Experimental Estimates from the Field." National Bureau of Economic Research No. w23906 (2017)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 82
- Anya Savikhin Samek, "The Association between Personality Traits and Voting in the 2016 US Presidential Election." CESR-Schaeffer Working Paper No. 2017-002 (2017)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 1
- Gianpaolo Parise and Kim Peijnenburg., "Understanding the Determinants of Financial Outcomes and Choices: The Role of Noncognitive Abilities." HEC Paris Research Paper No. FIN-2017-1193 (2017)
- Ian Kingsbury, "Silencing the seventh trumpet: Analyzing the effect of private schooling on voting behavior" UARK Education Reform Working Paper 2017-23 (2017)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 1
- Jeffrey R. Brown, Arie Kapteyn, Erzo FP Luttmer, Olivia S. Mitchell, and Anya Savikhin Samek, "Behavioral Impediments to Valuing Annuities: Evidence on the Effects of Complexity and Choice Bracketing" National Bureau of Economic Research No. w24101. (2017)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 49
- Custom dataset(s):
- John B. Shoven, Sita Nataraj Slavov, and David A. Wise., "Social Security Claiming Decisions: Survey Evidence" National Bureau of Economic Research No. w23729. (2017)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 176
- Joshua R. Goldstein, Christos Koulovatianos, Jian Li, and Carsten Schröder., "Evaluating How Child Allowances and Daycare Subsidies Affect Fertility" CFS Working Paper Series No. 568. (2017)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 27
- Leandro Carvalho and Dan Silverman., "Complexity and Sophistication." University of Munich (2017)
- Peter Lynn and Annette Jäckle, "Mounting Multiple Experiments on Longitudinal Social Surveys: Design and Implementation Considerations" Understanding Society at the Institute for Social and Economic Research No. 2017-05 (2017)
- Robert Adams, Tim Dore, Claire Greene, Tracy Mach, and Jason Premo, "U.S. Consumers’ Awareness and Use of Marketplace Lending" Current Policy Perspectives No. 17-7 (2017)
Brown et all NBER 24101 (Login required)Dissertations
- Christopher Wienberg, "Demographic Bias Correction for Social Media Data" University of Southern California Dissertation (2017)
- Ines Schaurer, "Recruitment strategies for a probability-based online panel: Effects of interview length, question sensitivity, incentives and interviewers" University of Mannheim Dissertation (2017)
Journal Papers
- John Romley, Prodyumna Goutam, and Neeraj Sood, "National Survey Indicates that Individual Vaccination Decisions Respond Positively to Community Vaccination Rates" PLoS ONE 11.11 (2016)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 12
- JoNell Strough, Wändi Bruine de Bruin, Andrew M. Parker, Tara Karns, Philip Lemaster, Nipat Pichayayothin, Rebecca Delaney, and Rachel Stoiko, "What Were They Thinking? Reducing Sunk-Cost Bias in a Life-Span Sample" Psychology and aging Vol. 31 No. 7: 724 (2016)
Conference Papers
- Richard Chard, David Rogofsky, and Joanne Yoong, "Wealthy or Wise: Social Security Knowledge, Retirement Savings Behavior and the Earned Income Tax Credit" The American Association of Behavioral and Social Sciences Annual Meeting Las Vegas, Nevada, February 2 (2016)
- Richard Chard, David Rogofsky, and Joanne Yoong, "Wealthy or Wise: Social Security Knowledge, Retirement Savings Behavior and the Earned Income Tax Credit" The Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois Chicago, Illinois April 7 (2016)
- Wändi Bruine de Bruin, Annika Wallin, Andrew M. Parker, JoNell Strough, and Janel Hanmer, "Effects of pro- vs. anti-vaccine narratives on responses by recipients varying in numeracy" Annual European conference of the Society for Medical Decision Making London, UK. June 13 (2016)
Working Papers
- Albert Cheng, Gema Zamarro, and Bart Orriens, "Personality as a Predictor of Unit Nonresponse in Panel Data: An Analysis of an Internet-based Survey" UARK Education Reform Working Paper No. 2016-12. (2016)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 1
- David Huffman, Raimond Maurer, and Olivia S. Mitchell, "Time Discounting and Economic Decision-making Among the Elderly" NBER Working Paper No. 22438 (2016)
- Gema Zamarro, Albert Cheng, M. Danish Shakeel, and Colin Hitt., "Comparing and Validating Measures of Character Skills: Findings from a Nationally Representative Sample." UARK Education Reform Working Paper No. 2016-08 (2016)
- Lila Rabinovich, Janice Peterson, Barbara Smith, Tania Gutsche, and Mallory Montgomery, "Preparing for Retirement, Social Security Literacy and Information preferences among Hispanics: A Qualitative Study" CESR-Schaeffer Working Paper Series No. 2016-012 (2016)
- Scott Schuh and Oz Shy, "US Consumers’ Adoption and Use of Bitcoin and other Virtual Currencies" (2016)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 28
Dissertations
- Aleksandr Sinayev, "Dual-System Theories of Decision Making: Analytic Approaches and Empirical Tests" Ohio State University Dissertation (2016)
Journal Papers
- Aleksandr Sinayev and Ellen Peters, "Cognitive Reflection vs. Calculation in Decision Making" Frontiers in Psychology 6 (2015)
- Ron D. Hays, Liu Honghu, and Arie Kapteyn, "Use of Internet panels to conduct surveys" Behavior Research Methods 1-6 (2015)
Working Papers
- Gopi Shah Goda, Matthew Levy, Colleen Flaherty Manchester, Aaron Sojourner, and Joshua Tasoff, "The Role of Time Preferences and Exponential-Growth Bias in Retirement Savings" National Bureau of Economic Research No. w21482 (2015)
- Jay P. Greene and Cari A. Bogulski., "The Effect of Public and Private Schooling on Anti-Semitism" UARK Education Reform Working Paper No. 2015-010 (2015)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 15
- Joanne Yoong, Lila Rabinovich, and Saw Htay Wah, "What Do People Know About Social Security?" CESR-Schaeffer Working Paper No. 2015-022 (2015)