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consent | We are conducting an important research study about how people in America manage their money. The goal of this study is to find solutions that can help people lead financially healthy lives.
If you agree to participate, you will have access to a secure and password-protected website we have created called UASFin, where you can link and conveniently see all your financial accounts. There is no cost to using this service. In fact, we will pay you in return for allowing UAS researchers to learn from a simplified version of your everyday transactions. Your financial information will be secure, protected, and confidential. We have developed the UASFin website in collaboration with Plaid, a company trusted by millions of users to connect their financial accounts with popular financial apps and services (like Venmo, Mint, etc.) to help them manage their money. In order to add and see your accounts on the UASFin website, you will be asked to share your account credentials with Plaid. Plaid securely protects your credentials and will not share your username and password, or any other personal information, with UAS researchers or anyone else. We at UAS also protect your private information. For example, when we write up results, we only ever publish tables and graphs that do not identify anyone individually. Researchers will see only limited account information. By agreeing to participate in this study, you are giving UAS researchers permission to view your account activity. Specifically, we will see the account type, the institution holding the account, as well as historical account balances, transaction dates, amounts, and descriptions (like you see on your credit card statement). We will never see your account credentials (usernames and passwords) or any account information that would reveal who you are. Time required: Your participation in this study will require very little of your time. After you add your financial accounts on the secure website we have created, we will ask you to review and update them from time to time, as needed. You can remove any or all of your accounts from the study at any time, and continue to participate in this project, and in the UAS. You will be paid for your participation, now and monthly: You will earn $^FLAmounts[1] for each financial institution that you add. After that, you will continue to earn $^FLAmounts[2] every month for each active institution that you have added. To get started: You will simply create your own private password for the UASFin secure website and then follow prompts to log in and add your accounts. If you have any questions about this study or about how we are storing and using this data, please let us know. You can find out more information about Plaid here: https://plaid.com/company. For other questions, just call our help desk at 855.872.8673 (9am to 5pm Pacific time; Monday through Friday) or send an email to uashelp@usc.edu. I am interested in participating in this research study: | consent |
consentno | Thank you for your help. While you are never obligated to participate in any UAS study, we would like to understand why some people chose not to participate in this particular study.
Which of the following are reasons why you are not interested in participating in this study? Please check all that apply. | I don't trust the security of your website |
consentno_call | People have all kinds of reasons for not wanting to participate in a study like this one. We would like to learn more about those reasons. Would you be willing to participate in a short telephone interview with a friendly UAS staff member? We would schedule the call at your convenience, and you would earn $20 for your time. | call about why no consent |
sc_001 | We are inviting you to an important project in the UAS. If you use mobile or online banking, or go online to check any of your financial accounts, you can review the information about the project and decide if you would like to participate.
Online banking is a method of accessing a financial account via a mobile app or website. With online banking, you can access your account, transfer money between accounts, and pay bills over the Internet or through a mobile device. Do you use online banking for any of your bank accounts? | use online banking for any of bank accounts |
treatment | Indicates treatment | indicates treatment |
treatment_flag | indicates if treatment was preloaded | |
version_flag | survey version indicator |