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The blog posts listed below have been written about and/or using data collected in the Understanding America Study. (For authors: if your publication is not listed here yet please just contact us at uas-l@mymaillists.usc.edu).
- "Los Angeles County: Americans Aren’t Getting Enough To Eat During the COVID-19 Pandemic" The Conversation December 23 (2020)
- Anna Saavedra, Amie Rapaport, Daniel Silver, Morgan Polikoff, Marshall Garland and Shira Haderlein, "Parents’ Perspectives on the Effects of COVID-19 on K-12 Education" The Evidence Base August 3 (2020)
- Anna Saavedra, Amie Rapaport, Morgan Polikoff, Daniel Silver, Shira Haderlein and Marshall Garland, "Evidence of COVID-19’s Impact on K-12 Education Points to Critical Areas of Intervention" The Evidence Base December 15 (2020)
- Arie Kapteyn and Francisco Perez-Arce, "What Will the June Jobs Report Show?" The Evidence Base June 22, 2020 (2020)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 100000
- Arie Kapteyn and Francisco Perez-Arce, "Has the Employment Recovery Stalled?" The Evidence Base July 22 (2020)
- Dan Cassino, "How men's misplaced sense of masculinity in the face of Covid-19 may be killing them" USApp-American Politics and Policy Blog April 9 (2020)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 230
- Daniel Bennett, Arie Kapteyn and Htay-Wah Saw, "This Recession May Be Different, But Many of the Victims May Look the Same" The Evidence Base March 25 (2020)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 230
- Fred Hartman, "Outside view" Fort Bend Herald November 6 (2020)
- Gabrielle Wanneh, "Some Parents Concerned Their Children Won't Be Ready for Next Year, Survey Says" Education Week April 30 (2020)
- Jill Darling, Kyla Thomas, Arie Kapteyn and Francisco Perez-Arce, "Vast Majority of Americans Support Wearing Masks, But a Deeper Look at Behavior Reveals Troubling Lack of Adherence" The Evidence Base August 13 (2020)
- Joel Millward-Hopkins, Astrid Kause and Wandi Bruine de Bruin , "Even concerned consumers don’t know which food choices have the lowest climate impact" The Conversation March 10 (2020)
- Kyla Thomas, "Pandemic Hit L.A. Economy Harder Than National Trends Suggest" The Evidence Base June 19 (2020)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 100000
- Margaret Gatz and Christian Pike,, "What Can Your Hand Say About Your Cognition? Digit Length and Cognitive Abilities" The Evidence Base August 10 (2020)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 164
- Maria J. Prados and Gema Zamarro, "Working Mothers’ Careers, Mental Health Suffer During COVID-19 Pandemic" The Evidence Base August 20 (2020)
- Mirta Galesic and Wändi Bruine de Bruin, "Election Polls Are More Accurate if They ask Participants How Others Will Vote" The Evidence Base November 18 (2020)
- Morgan Polikoff, "Parent dissatisfaction shows need to improve school communication during coronavirus pandemic" Brookings Brown Center Chalkboard July 23 (2020)
- Morgan Polikoff, Anna Rosefsky Saavedra and Shira Korn, "Not all kids have computers – and they’re being left behind with schools closed by the coronavirus" The Conversation May 8 (2020)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 235
- Morgan Polikoff, Dan Silver and Shira Korn, "What’s the Likely Impact of COVID-19 on Higher Ed?" Inside HigherEd August 4 (2020)
- Rick Hess, "Gates K-12 Education Chief on the Foundation's Response to Coronavirus" Education Week April 28 (2020)
- Shira K. Haderlein and Morgan S. Polikoff, "For Schools To Open in Spring 2021, Teachers and Students Need to Mask Up" Education Next December 23 (2020)
- Simone Schaner and Natalie Theys, "Individuals with Low Incomes, Less Education Report Higher Perceived Financial, Health Threats from COVID-19" The Evidence Base April 1 (2020)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 230
- Simone Schaner and Natalie Theys, "Individuals with Low Incomes, Less Education Report Higher Perceived Financial, Health Threats from COVID-19 " The Evidence Base April 1 (2020)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 230
- Wändi Bruine de Bruin and Daniel Bennett, "USC Study Finds Increasing Actions and Risk Perceptions for Coronavirus" The Evidence Base March 18 (2020)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 230
- Wandi Bruine de Bruin Anya Samek and Daniel Bennett, "Americans Disagree on How Risky the Coronavirus Is, But Most Are Changing Their Behavior Anyway" The Evidence Base March 26 (2020)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 230
- Ying Liu and Brian Finch , "Discrimination Against Asian, Black Americans More Likely Amid Coronavirus Pandemic" The Evidence Base March 23 (2020)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 230
- Ying Liu and Soeren Mattke, "Knowledge of COVID-19 Symptoms May Not Be Sufficient to Change Behavior" The Evidence Base March 20 (2020)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 230
- Edward Freeland, "What Do Americans Think about Universal Basic Income?" The Evidence Base August 26 (2019)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 167
- Francisco Perez-Arce, "Innovations in probability-based Internet panel data: exploring the Understanding America Study" The Evidence Base October 8 (2019)
- Kyla Thomas, "LABarometer: A new quarterly survey of L.A. County residents" The Evidence Base October 30 (2019)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 194
- Anya Samek, "What types of food aid programs do Americans prefer, and why?" The Evidence Base October 2 (2018)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 130
- Brian Libgober, "The Price of Votes: Exploring the effect of ad spending in the last presidential campaign" The Evidence Base March 12 (2018)
- Gema Zamarro, "When Survey Respondents Don’t Pay Attention" The Evidence Base May 23 (2018)
- Jill Darling, "Trump’s boomerang effect on trust and motivation" The Evidence Base September 6 (2018)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 145
- Lila Rabinovich, "No regrets: Older adults reflect on their Social Security claiming decisions" The Evidence Base June 18 (2018)
- Robert Shrum, "Thomas Jefferson, Donald Trump, and Freedom of the Press" The Evidence Base October 11 (2018)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 145
- Anya Savikhin Samek, "What are the effects of recipient contribution requirements on public support for social programs?" The Evidence Base September 28 (2017)
- Jill Darling, "Could “Shy” Trump Voters' Discomfort With Disclosing Candidate Choice Have Skewed Telephone Polls? Evidence from the USC Election Poll" The Evidence Base February 2 (2017)
- Jill Darling and Margaret Gatz, "Through the Lens of Populism: The 2016 Election" The Evidence Base December 22 (2017)
- Kyla Thomas, "Are We All Snobs? How Personal Tastes Affect Our Judgment of Others" The Evidence Base April 25 (2017)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 76
- Tania Gutsche and Jill Darling, "The Woes of Collecting Public Opinion: Lessons from an Outlier Election Poll" The Evidence Base February 15 (2017)
- Anya Savikhin Samek, "The Association between Personality Traits and Voting Intentions in the 2016 Presidential Election" The Evidence Base September 23 (2016)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 1
- Dan Schnur, "The Daybreak Presidential Poll: Voter Preference and Intensity in the 2016 Election" The Evidence Base September 6 (2016)
- Gema Zamarro, "Surveys and Character Skills: The Information we Reveal Without Even Trying" The Evidence Base November 30 (2016)
- Joanne Yoong, "How Much do Americans Know About Social Security?" The Evidence Base January 26 (2016)
- Mirta Galesic and Wändi Bruine de Bruin, "Can Asking About People’s Social Circles Inform Election Predictions?" The Evidence Base November 7 (2016)
- Brian Finch, "What do We Know, and How do We Feel about Police Homicides in the US?" The Evidence Base October 6 (2015)
- Lila Rabinovich, "Our Outbreaks" The Evidence Base February 27 (2015)
- Associated survey(s): UAS 12
- Mike Branom, "Didn't you Hear? The Understanding America Study is Here." The Evidence Base November 24 (2015)