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Michael A. Beam, Myiah J. Hutchens, Jay D. Hmielowski · 2018 · Information Communication & Society
The rise of social media, and specifically Facebook, as a dominant force in the flow of news in the United States has led to concern that people incur greater isolation from diverse perspectives through filter bubbles (from algorithmic…
View details →Ronald E. Robertson, Shan Jiang, Kenneth Joseph et al. · 2018 · Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
There is a growing consensus that online platforms have a systematic influence on the democratic process. However, research beyond social media is limited. In this paper, we report the results of a mixed-methods algorithm audit of partisan…
View details →Monica J. Grant, Cynthia B. Lloyd, Barbara Mensch · 2013 · Comparative Education Review
The provision of toilets and menstrual supplies has emerged as a promising programmatic strategy to support adolescent girls' school attendance and performance in less developed countries. We use the first round of the Malawi Schooling and…
View details →Qian Huang, Robert M. Davison, Jibao Gu · 2010 · Information Systems Journal
Knowledge sharing is recognised as one of the most critical components of knowledge management. Successful and efficient knowledge sharing could directly facilitate knowledge creation and so help a firm to maintain its competitive…
View details →Surendrakumar Bagde, Dennis Epple, Lowell J. Taylor · 2016 · American Economic Review
Public policy in modern India features affirmative action programs intended to reduce inequality that stems from a centuries-old caste structure and history of disparate treatment by gender. We study the effects of one such affirmative…
View details →Loukas Balafoutas, Nikos Nikiforakis, Bettina Rockenbach · 2014 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Many interactions in modern human societies are among strangers. Explaining cooperation in such interactions is challenging. The two most prominent explanations critically depend on individuals' willingness to punish defectors: In models…
View details →Terry Judd, Gregor Kennedy, Simon J. Cropper · 2010 · Australasian Journal of Educational Technology
<span>Wikis are widely promoted as collaborative writing tools and are gaining in popularity in educational settings. However, while wikis include features that are designed to facilitate collaboration, it does not necessarily follow…
View details →Pierre‐André Chiappori, Bernard Salanié, Yoram Weiss · 2017 · American Economic Review
We construct a model of household decision-making in which agents consume a private and a public good, interpreted as children's welfare. Children's utility depends on their human capital, which depends on the time their parents spend with…
View details →Isaac Mbiti, Karthik Muralidharan, Mauricio Romero et al. · 2019 · The Quarterly Journal of Economics
Abstract We present results from a large-scale randomized experiment across 350 schools in Tanzania that studied the impact of providing schools with (i) unconditional grants, (ii) teacher incentives based on student performance, and (iii)…
View details →Chris G. Sibley, Joseph Bulbulia · 2012 · PLoS ONE
On 22 February 2011, Christchurch New Zealand (population 367,700) experienced a devastating earthquake, causing extensive damage and killing one hundred and eighty-five people. The earthquake and aftershocks occurred between the 2009 and 2011 waves of a longitudinal probability sample conducted in New Zealand, enabling us to examine how a natural disaster of this magnitude affected deeply held commitments and global ratings of personal health, depending on earthquake exposure. We first investigated whether the earthquake-affected were more likely to believe in God. Consistent with the Religio
View details →Isabel Fernandez‐Mateo, Roberto M. Fernandez · 2016 · Management Science
We study the sources of women’s underrepresentation in hiring for top management jobs by focusing on the context of executive search. Using data that include proprietary information on 10,970 individuals considered by a search firm, we…
View details →Hanne Fjelde, Lisa Hultman · 2013 · Journal of Conflict Resolution
While case-based narratives from civil wars often stress the ethnic dimension of civilian atrocities, cross-national studies have found limited evidence in support of such contentions. Addressing this debate, we argue that warring actors…
View details →Joakim Karlsen, Eirik Stavelin · 2013 · Journalism Practice
This article examines computational journalism as a craft practised in Norwegian newsrooms. Based on in-depth interviews with expert practitioners in six of the largest newsrooms in Norway, we find that computational journalism represents…
View details →John Tang, Gina Venolia, Kori Inkpen · 2016
We conducted a mixed methods study of the use of the Meerkat and Periscope apps for live streaming video and audio broadcasts from a mobile device. We crowdsourced a task to describe the content, setting, and other characteristics of 767…
View details →Ullrich K. H. Ecker, Ziggy O’Reilly, Jesse S. Reid et al. · 2019 · British Journal of Psychology
Fact-checking has become an important feature of the modern media landscape. However, it is unclear what the most effective format of fact-checks is. Some have argued that simple retractions that repeat a false claim and tag it as false…
View details →Diyi Li, Cory Koedel · 2017 · Educational Researcher
We use data from 2015–2016 to document faculty representation and wage gaps by race-ethnicity and gender in six fields at selective public universities. Consistent with widely available information, Black, Hispanic, and female professors…
View details →Laetitia Radder, Xiliang Han · 2015 · Journal of Applied Business Research (JABR)
This study determined whether Pine and Gilmores four experience economy realms (education, entertainment, escapism and esthetics) were represented by visitors experiences of three South African heritage museums, evaluated whether their experience expectations associated with the experience realms had been met, and examined the relationship between the latter, satisfaction and behavioral intentions. In addition, the relationship between personal and trip-related factors and the experience realms was investigated. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses identified three experience realms -
View details →Jennifer B. Dowd, Megan Todd · 2011 · The Journals of Gerontology Series B
OBJECTIVES: Measurement of health inequalities based on self-reports may be biased if individuals use response scales in systematically different ways. We use anchoring vignettes to test and adjust for reporting differences by education,…
View details →Jan C. van Ours, Lenny Stoeldraijer · 2011 · De Economist
Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and wages, i.e. wages increase with age…
View details →Steven W. Hemelt, Dave E. Marcotte · 2011 · Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis
In this paper we review recent increases in tuition at public institutions and estimate impacts on enrollment. We use data on all U.S. public 4-year colleges and universities from 1991 to 2006 and illustrate that tuition increased…
View details →Ernest H. Joy, Federico E. Garcia · 2019 · Online Learning
Researchers, instructional designers and consumers of ALNs must be cautious when interpreting results of media comparison studies. Much of the literature purports to have found no significant difference in learning effectiveness between technology-based and conventional delivery media. This research, though, is largely flawed. In this paper, we first outline the philosophical positions of the opposing sides of an intense debate in the literature as to whether delivery media alone influence learning outcomes. We then select at random several representative media comparison studies to illustrate
View details →Kostadin Kushlev, Elizabeth W. Dunn · 2018 · Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
In the U.S., 95% of smartphone users admit to having used their smartphones during their latest social gathering. Although smartphones are designed to connect us with others, such smartphone use may create a source of distraction that…
View details →Julia S. Goldberg, Marcia J. Carlson · 2014 · Journal of Marriage and the Family
Although an extensive literature has shown that family structure is linked with child well-being, less well understood is how the dynamics within families affect children, in particular the extent to which positive mother-father…
View details →Jennifer Hook, Christina Marie Wolfe · 2011 · Journal of Family Issues
We examine variation in employed fathers' time with children ages zero to 14, utilizing time use surveys from the United States (2003), Germany (2001), Norway (2000), and the United Kingdom (2000). We examine levels of father involvement…
View details →Alan Manning, Sanchari Roy · 2010 · The Economic Journal
This article investigates the extent and determinants of British identity among those living in Britain, a source of considerable contemporary angst. We find no evidence for a culture clash in general, and one connected with Muslims in particular. The vast majority of those born in Britain, of whatever ethnicity or religion, think of themselves as British. Newly arrived immigrants almost never think of themselves as British but the longer they remain in the UK, the more likely it is that they do. This process of assimilation is faster for those from poorer and less democratic countries.
View details →Homa Hosseinmardi, Amir Ghasemian, Aaron Clauset et al. · 2021 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Although it is under-studied relative to other social media platforms, YouTube is arguably the largest and most engaging online media consumption platform in the world. Recently, YouTube's scale has fueled concerns that YouTube users are…
View details →Samara Klar, Yanna Krupnikov, John Barry Ryan et al. · 2020 · PLoS ONE
To disseminate research, scholars once relied on university media services or journal press releases, but today any academic can turn to Twitter to share their published work with a broader audience. The possibility that scholars can push their research out, rather than hope that it is pulled in, holds the potential for scholars to draw wide attention to their research. In this manuscript, we examine whether there are systematic differences in the types of scholars who most benefit from this push model. Specifically, we investigate the extent to which there are gender differences in the dissem
View details →Kenneth R. Ahern, Ran Duchin, Tyler Shumway · 2014 · Review of Financial Studies
Existing evidence shows that risk aversion and trust are largely determined by environmental factors. We test whether one such factor is peer influence. Using random assignment of MBA students to peer groups and predetermined survey…
View details →Andrew Healy, Mikael Persson, Erik Snowberg · 2017 · American Political Science Review
To paint a fuller picture of economic voters, we combine personal income records with a representative election survey. We examine three central topics in the economic voting literature: pocketbook versus sociotropic voting, the effects of partisanship on economic evaluations, and voter myopia. First, we show that voters who appear in survey data to be voting based on the national economy are, in fact, voting equally on the basis of their personal financial conditions. Second, there is strong evidence of both partisan bias and economic information in economic evaluations, but personal economic
View details →Joaquim Filipe Araújo, Francisca Tejedo Romero · 2016 · International Journal of Public Sector Management
Purpose – Cases of corruption, embezzlement, theft and fraud, abuse of discretion, favoritism, nepotism, clientelism, and abuse of power in governments have led to a growing demand from society to access public information. In response to this demand, governments have been forced to be more transparent in the conduct of their activities. The information transparency index (TI) may be conditioned by economic and political characteristics of local governments affecting the information provided. What factors influenced the index of municipal transparency? Literature about transparency is largely
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