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Journal Papers
- Jennifer D Allen, Nadia N Abuelezam, Rebecca Rose and Holly B Fontenot, "Factors associated with the intention to obtain a COVID-19 vaccine among a racially/ethnically diverse sample of women in the USA" Translational Behavioral Medicine March 26 (2021)
- Angelina R. Sutin,Yannick Stephan,Martina LuchettiORCID Icon,Jason E. Strickhouser,Damaris AschwandenORCID Icon and Antonio Terracciano, "The Association Between Five Factor Model Personality Traits and Verbal and Numeric Reasoning" Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition January 19 (2021)
- Chloe Sher and Cary Wu, "Who Stays Physically Active during COVID-19? Inequality and Exercise Patterns in the United States" Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World January 15 (2021)
- Gema Zamarro and María J. Prados , "Gender differences in couples’ division of childcare, work and mental health during COVID-19. " Review of Economics of the Household Vol. 19, pp 11-40 (2021)
- Jim Key, "USC Dornsife scholars take charge on the frontlines in the battle against COVID-19" USC Dornsife March 18 (2021)
- Julia Raifman, Jacob Bor, and Atheendar Venkataramani, "Association Between Receipt of Unemployment Insurance and Food Insecurity Among People Who Lost Employment During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States" JAMA Network Open 4.1 (2021)
- Laurence Du Sault, "For Bay Area moms, back to school is not back to normal" East Bay Times April 5 (2021)
- Matthew Crane, Kenneth Shermock and Saad Omer, "Change in Reported Adherence to Nonpharmaceutical Interventions During the COVID-19 Pandemic, April-November 2020" JAMA January 22 (2021)
- Michael Daly and Eric Robinson, "Willingness to vaccinate against COVID-19 in the US: Representative longitudinal evidence from April–October 2020" American Journal of Preventive Medicine Vol. 3, pp. 4 (2021)
- Robert F. Schoeni, Emily E. Wiemers, Judith A. Seltzer and Kenneth M. Langa, "Association Between Risk Factors for Complications From COVID-19, Perceived Chances of Infection and Complications, and Protective Behavior in the US" JAMA Netw. Open 4(3) (2021)
- Scott Fulford and Joanna Stavins, "Does getting a mortgage affect consumer credit use?" Review of Economics of the Household pp. 1-37 (2021)
- Wändi Bruine de Bruin, Katie Carman and Andrew Parker, "Mental associations with COVID-19 and how they relate to self-reported protective behaviors: A national survey in the United States." Journal of Social Science and Medicine (2021)
- Y. Li, J.E. Mutchler, E.A. Miller, R. Tucker-Seeley and J.J. Xiao, "Does Financial Knowledge at Older Ages Matter? Placing Income and Hardship in Context" Journal of Poverty pp. 1-16 (2021)
Working Papers
- Andrew Camp and Gema Zamarro, "Determinants of Ethnic Differences in School Modality Choices during the COVID-19 Crisis" Annenberg Brown University 2021-04 (2021)
- Carly Lupton-Smith, Elena Badillo Goicoechea, Megan Collins, Justin Lessler, M. Kate Grabowski and Elizabeth A. Stuart, "Consistency between household and county measures of K-12 onsite schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic" ArXiv Preprints March 24 (2021)
- Luisa Blanco, Vanessa Cruz, Deja Frederick and Susie Herrera, "Stress among Latino Adults in California during COVID-19" Pepperdine School Of Policy March (2021)
- Margaret Thornton, "Who wants what?: Examining schooling modality survey data by race, income, and education level" EdArxiv March 29 (2021)
- Michael Daly and Eric Robinson, "Longitudinal changes in psychological distress in the UK from 2019 to September 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from a large nationally representative study." PsyArXiv Preprints January 14 (2021)
Journal Papers
- "Biden Widens Lead in National Poll" Bloomberg October 12 (2020)
- A. Kira Ibrahim, Hanaa A. M. Shuwiekh, Kenneth G. Rice,J effrey S. Ashby, Sayed Ahmed Elwakeel, Mariam Sous Fahmy Sous, Amthal Alhuwailah, Shadia Bint, "Measuring COVID-19 as Traumatic Stress: Initial Psychometrics and Validation" Journal of Loss and Trauma June 13 (2020)
- Adrian Mojica, "Survey study finds fewer Americans likely to get COVID-19 vaccine compared to 9 months ago" Fox17.com December 29 (2020)
- Allen C.Sherman, Mark L Williams, Benjamin C. Amick, Teresa J. Hudson and Erick L. Messias, "Mental Health Outcomes Associated with the COVID-19 Pandemic: Prevalence and Risk Factors in a Southern US State" Psychiatry Research September 24 (2020)
- Allyson Waller, "US woman says she was fired because her children disrupted her work calls" ABS CBN News July 9 (2020)
- Anna Robertson, Katherine Johanson, Allison Walden, Rebecca Ingram, Lauren Schneider and Leilani Feliciano, "Step Up: An Evaluation of Question-Behavior Effects in Diabetes Footcare in Middle-Aged and Older Adults" Innovation in Aging Supplement 1: pp. 453-454 (2020)
- Arie Kapteyn, Marco Angrisani, Daniel Bennett, Wandi de Bruin, Jill Darling, Tania Gutsche, Ying Liu, Erik Meijer, Francisco Perez-Arce, Simone Schane, "Tracking the Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Lives of American Households" Survey Research Methods Vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 179-186 (2020)
- C. Holingue, L.G. Kalb, K.E. Riehm, D. Bennett, A. Kapteyn, C.B. Veldhuis, R.M. Johnson, M.D. Fallin, F. Kreuter, E.A. Stuart and J. Thrul, "Mental Distress in the United States at the Beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic" American Journal of Public Health pp. e1-e7 (2020)
- Cary Wu, Yue Qian and Rima Wilkes, "Anti-Asian discrimination and the Asian-white mental health gap during COVID-19" Ethnic and Racial Studies pp. 1-17 (2020)
- City News Service, "LA County worse off financially than average due to coronavirus, says USC study" Daily Breeze May 21 (2020)
- City News Service, "Survey: Women suffered more job losses during coronavirus pandemic" Daily Breeze June 18 (2020)
- City News Service, "Survey: Women suffered more job losses during coronavirus pandemic" San Gabriel Valley Tribune June 18 (2020)
- Erfei Zhao, Qiao Wu, Eileen Crimmins, and Jennifer Ailshire, "Media Trust and Infection Mitigating Behaviors during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States." BMJ Global Health (2020)
- Eric Robinson and Michael Daly, "Explaining the rise and fall of psychological distress during the COVID‐19 crisis in the United States: Longitudinal evidence from the Understanding America Study" British Journal of Health Psychology December 5 (2020)
- Eun Young Choi, Matthew Farina, Qiao Wu and Jennifer Ailshire, "COVID-19 Social Distancing Measures and Loneliness among Older Adults" Innovation in Aging Supplement 1: pp. 939 (2020)
- Felichism Kabo, Stewart Thornhill and Elizabeth Isele, "Disruption as Antecedent to New Business Startup: A Study of Entrepreneurship Using the Understanding America Study" Innovation in Aging Supplement 1: pp. 460-460 (2020)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 165
- Felichism W. Kabo, "Effect of Financial Literacy on Starting a New Business: Using Survival Analysis to Examine Differences between Older and Younger Entrepreneurs" Esic Market Economics and Business Journal Num. 169 Vol 52, Issue 2 (2020)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 165
- Frauke Kreuter, Neta Barkay, Alyssa Bilinski, Adrianne Bradford, Samantha Chiu, Roee Eliat, Junchuan Fan, T. Galili, D. Haimovich, B. Kim and S. LaRoc, "Partnering with a global platform to inform research and public policy making" Survey Research Method Vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 159-163 (2020)
- Hector Ortiz and Jan Mutchler, "Using Subjective and Objective Measures of Financial Situation to Improve Program Outcomes for Older Adults" Innovation in Aging Supplement 1: pp. 731-731 (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
- Jim Key, "Among couples, the pandemic continues to disproportionately impact women" USC Dornsife December 14 (2020)
- Joseph A. Rios and Alejandra A. Miranda, "What are the Conditions Associated with Subscore Added Value Noninvariance? Implications for Improving Subscore Interpretation Fairness" Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice August 3 (2020)
- Joy Pullman, "New Study Suggests To Protect Your Child From Divorce, Send Him To A Christian School" The Federalist September 18 (2020)
- Jung Ki Kim and Eileen Crimmins, "Age Differences in the Relationship between Threatening and Coping Mechanisms and Preventive Behaviors in the Time of COVID-19: Protection Motivation Theory." Research in Psychotherapy: Psychopathology, Process and Outcome (2020)
- Jung Ki Kim and Eileen M. Crimmins, "How does age affect personal and social reactions to COVID-19: Results from the national Understanding America Study" PLOS ONE November 10 (2020)
- K.E. Riehm, S.G. Brenneke, L.B. Adams, D. Gilan, K. Lieb, A.M. Kunzler, E.J. Smail, C. Holingue, E.A. Stuart, L.G. Kalb and J. Thrul, "Association between psychological resilience and changes in mental distress during the COVID-19 pandemic" Journal of Affective Disorders Volume 281, pp 279-288 (2020)
- Khawla F. Ali, Simon Whitebridge, Mohammad H. Jamal, Mohammad Alsafy and Stephen L. Atkin, "Perceptions, Knowledge, and Behaviors Related to COVID-19 Among Social Media Users: Cross-Sectional Study" Journal of Medical Internet Research 22 (9) (2020)
- Kim, Jung Ki and Eileen Crimmins, "How Age Affects Personal and Social Reactions to COVID-19: Results from the National Understanding America Survey" Innovation in Aging Supplement 1: pp. 948 (2020)
- Kira E.Riehm, Luther G.Kalb, Daniel Bennett, Arie Kapteyn, Qin Jiang, Cindy Veldhuis, Renee M.Johnson, M. Daniele Fallin, Frauke Kreuter, Elizabeth A., "Associations Between Media Exposure and Mental Distress Among U.S. Adults at the Beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic" American Journal of Preventive Medicine July 10 (2020)
- Lauren Stratton, Naomi Meinertz and Suzanne Bartholomae, "Marital Status and Gender Differences in End-of-Life Planning" Innovation in Aging Supplement 1: pp. 453 (2020)
- Leslie Hasche, "Using Implementation Research to Promote the Expansion and Sustainability of Intergenerational Programs" Innovation in Aging Supplement 1: pp. 732-732 (2020)
- M. Hitczenko, "Sample bias related to household role" Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology April 24 (2020)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 105
- Matthew Mizota and William A. Darity Jr, "Mizota, Matthew, and William A. Darity Jr. "Coronavirus and Racial Wealth Inequality: How Will the COVID-19 Pandemic and Recession Affect the Racial Wealth Gap in the United States." Samuel Dubois Cook Center on Social Equity PUBPOL 490S (2020)
- Michael Cook, "What kind of school will help your kids to be happily married? " Mercator Net September 17 (2020)
- Michael Daly and Eric Robinson, "Psychological distress and adaptation to the COVID-19 crisis in the United States" Journal of Psychiatric Research October 23 (2020)
- Michael Daly, Angelina Sutin, and Eric Robinson, "Depression reported by US adults in 2017-2018 and March and April 2020" Journal of Affective Disorders September 15 (2020)
- Mireille Jacobson, Johanna Thunell and Julie Zissimopoulos, "Cognitive Assessment At Medicare’s Annual Wellness Visit In Fee-For-Service And Medicare Advantage Plans" Health Affairs Vol. 39, no. 11 (2020)
- Nathan Cheek and Eldar Shafir, "The thick skin bias in judgments about people in poverty" Behavioural Public Policy pp 1-26 (2020)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 208
- Nicolas Duquette, ""Heard" immunity: Messages emphasizing the safety of others increase intended uptake of a COVID-19 vaccine in some groups1" Covid Economics October 6 (2020)
- Pankaj C.Patel and Cornelius A.Rietveld, "The impact of financial insecurity on the self-employed’s short-term psychological distress: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic" Journal of Business Venturing Insights Vol. 14 (2020)
- Rachel Matta, "COVID-19 Transmission Spikes Among Young Population In L.A. County respiratory mask 040820 tweet Print This! COVID-19 Transmission Spikes Among Young Population In L.A. County" KHTS July 7 (2020)
- Ranak Trivedi, Madhuvanthi Suresh, Rashmi Risbud, Marika Humber, Josephine Jacobs and Samuel Thomas, "How are Informal Caregivers Adapting to COVID19? Preliminary Results of an Online Survey" Innovation in Aging Supplement 1: pp. 948-949 (2020)
- Ryan Foley, "AEI report: Graduates of Protestant schools most likely to have intact marriages, fewer divorces " The Christian Post September 17 (2020)
- Ryan O. Murphy, Samantha Lamas and Ray Sin, "Identifying What Investors Value in a Financial Adviser: Uncovering Opportunities and Pitfalls" Journal of Financial Planning Association July (2020)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 150
- Sarah Sparks, "Parent Racial, Income Divides Seen on School Reopening Preferences" Education Week July 28 (2020)
- Shervin Assari, "Understanding America: Unequal Economic Returns of Years of Schooling in Whites and Blacks" World journal of educational research 7.2: 78. (2020)
- Srikant Devaraj and Pankaj Patel, "Change in psychological distress in response to changes in reduced mobility during the early 2020 COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence of modest effects from the US" Social Science & Medicine pp. 113615 (2020)
- Stefan Schneider, Doerte Junghaenel, Tania Gutsche, Hio Wa Mak and Arthur Stone, "Comparability of emotion dynamics derived from Ecological Momentary Assessments, daily diaries, and the Day Reconstruction Method: observational study." Journal of Medical Internet Research (2020)
- Stephen Jennings, Kenneth Manning, Megan Pearson, Catalin Mateas, Katherine Hall, Janet Bettger and Miriam Morey, "COVID-19 Transition: Does virtual exercise maintain physical function?" Innovation in Aging Supplement 1: pp. 939-939 (2020)
- Sung Park, "Caregivers’ Mental Health and Somatic Symptoms During Covid-19" The Journals of Gerontology: Series B August 1 (2020)
- Victoria Raveis, Anderson Torres, Jane Arce-Bello, Donna Atmore-Dolly and Allison Nickerson, "Front-line Perspectives from Aging Services Providers on the COVID-19 Pandemic and Older Community Residents" Innovation in Aging Supplement 1: pp. 947-48 (2020)
- Wandi Bruine de Bruin, "Age differences in COVID-19 risk perceptions and mental health: Evidence from a national US survey conducted in March 2020." Journal of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences May 29 (2020)
- Wandi Bruine de Bruin and Aulona Ulqinaku, "Effect of mortality salience on charitable donations: Evidence from a national sample" Psychology and Aging August 17 (2020)
- Wandi Bruine de Bruin and Daniel Bennett, "Relationships between initial COVID-19 risk perceptions and protective health behaviors: A national survey." American Journal of Preventive Medicine Vol 59, Issue 2, pp. 157-167 (2020)
- Yannick Stephan, Antonio Terracciano, Martina Luchetti, Damaris Aschwanden, Ji Hyun Lee, Amanda A. Sesker, Jason E. Strickhouser and Angelina R. Sutin, "Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior During COVID-19: Trajectory and Moderation by Personality" Social Psychological and Personality Science November 27 (2020)
- Ying Liu and Soeren Mattke, "Association between state stay-at-home orders and risk reduction behaviors and mental distress amid the COVID-19 pandemic" Preventive Medicine October 28 (2020)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 230
- Ying Liu, Brian Finch, Savannah G.Brenneke, Kyla Thomas, Phuong Thao D. Le, "Perceived discrimination and mental distress amid the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from the Understanding America Study" American Journal of Preventive Medicine July 6 (2020)
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)
- Laura Hamilton and Darleen Opfer, "The Business of Pandemics: The COVID-19 Story" CRS Press pp. 129 (2020)
- Pär Bjälkebring and Ellen Peters, "AGING-RELATED CHANGES IN DECISION-MAKING" The Aging Consumer: Perspectives from Psychology and Marketing (2020)
Conference Papers
- James Choi and Anqi Chen, "Panel 6: Retirement Finances" Retirement and Disability Research Consortium 22nd Annual Meeting August 6 (2020)
- Lauren Hersch Nicholas, "Panel 3: Health Risks for Work and Finances." Retirement and Disability Research Consortium 22nd Annual Meeting August 6 (2020)
- Tara Seibert, Anthony Perkins and Nicole Fowler, "Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression Among Community Dwelling Older Adults: Impact of Covid-19" Proceedings of IMPRS 3(1) (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
- Custom dataset(s):
- Alec Bernard, Sara Weiss, Joshua D. Stein, Sheryl Ulin, Clive D'Souza, Anah Salgat, Kate Panzer, Anne Riddering, Paul Edwards, Michelle Meade, Michael, "Development of a Novel Survey to Measure the Impact of COVID-19 on Persons with Disabilities" OSF Preprints May 27 (2020)
- Alex Rees-Jones, John D'Attoma, Amedeo Piolatto and Luca Salvadori, "COVID-19 Changed Tastes for Safety-Net Programs" NBER Paper No. 27865 (2020)
- 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)
- Anya Samek and Justin R. Sydnor, "Impact of consequence information on insurance choice" NBER No. 28003 (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)
- Charlene Marie Kalenkoski and Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia, "Initial Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Employment and Hours of Self-Employed Coupled and Single Workers by Gender and Parental Status" IZA Institute of Labor Economics No. 13443 (2020)
- Emily Smail, Kira Riehm, Cindy Veldhuis, Renee M. Johnson, Calliope Holingue, Elizabeth Stuart, Luke Kalb and Johannes Thrul, "Associations of Household Structure and Presence of Children in the Household with Mental Distress during the COVID-19 Pandemic" (2020)
- Gema Zamarro and Maria J. Prados, "Gender Differences in Couples’ Division of Childcare, Work and Mental Health During COVID-19" USC CESR-Schaeffer Working Paper Series Paper No. 2020-003 (2020)
- Laura Kim, Raynil Kumar and Shaun O’Brien, "2020 Findings from the Diary of Consumer Payment Choice" Federal Reserve System July (2020)
- Marco Angrisani, Jeremy Burke and Arie Kapteyn, "Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Aging, and Debt Accumulation" University of Michigan Retirement and Disability Research Center No. 411 (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
- Michael Daly and Eric Robinson, "Psychological distress and adaptation to the COVID-19 crisis in the United States" PsyArXiv Preprints July 21 (2020)
- Nicolas Duquette, "Heard immunity: effective persuasion for a future COVID-19 vaccine" Sol Price School of Public Policy September 4 (2020)
- Parag A. Pathak, Alex Rees-Jones and Tayfun Sönmez, "Reversing Reserves" Work April 1 (2020)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 210
Ciancio_Plos_One (Login and Covid-19 access required)Dissertations
- Mary Conway, "Impact of Immigrant Origin Home Country Level of Financial Access and Inclusion on Immigrant US Financial Literacy Scores" Ohio State University (2020)
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)
- Federico Echenique, Taisuke Imai and Kota Saito, "Decision Making under Uncertainty: An Experimental Study in Market Settings" arXiv No. 1911.00946 (2019)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 116
- 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
- Krislert Samphantharak, Scott Schuh and Robert M. Townsend, "Integrated Household Financial Surveys: An Assessment of U.S. Methods and an Innovation" Journal of Economic Inquiry Vol. 56, Issue 1, pp. 50-80 (2018)
- 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):
- Scott Schuh, "Measuring Consumer Expenditures with Payment Diary Surveys" Journal of Economic Inquiry Vol. 56, Issue 1, pp. 13-49 (2018)
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)
- Scott Schuh, Claire Greene and Shaun O’Brien, "An Introduction to the Diary of Consumer Payment Choice" International Cash Conference 2017: The War on Cash: Is there a Future for Cash? Deutsche Bundesbank (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)