Adam Slez,Heather A O&#x;Connell,Katherine J Curtis
Adam Slez
Areal data have been used to good effect in a wide range of sociological research. One of the most persistent problems associated with this type of data, however, is the need to combine data sets with incongruous boundaries. To help address...
Analyzing Relationships of Necessity Not Just in Kind But Also in Degree: Complementing fsQCA With NCA [0.03%]
从量和度两个方面分析必要性关系：用NCA补充fsQCA的方法不足
Barbara Vis,Jan Dul
Barbara Vis
Analyzing relationships of necessity is important for both scholarly and applied research questions in the social sciences. An often-used technique for identifying such relationships-fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA)-has li...
Peter M Steiner,Yongnam Kim,Courtney E Hall et al.
Peter M Steiner et al.
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and quasi-experimental designs like regression discontinuity (RD) designs, instrumental variable (IV) designs, and matching and propensity score (PS) designs are frequently used for inferring causal effec...
Using Twitter for Demographic and Social Science Research: Tools for Data Collection and Processing [0.03%]
基于Twitter的人口统计和社科学术研究：数据收集与处理工具
Tyler H McCormick,Hedwig Lee,Nina Cesare et al.
Tyler H McCormick et al.
Despite recent and growing interest in using Twitter to examine human behavior and attitudes, there is still significant room for growth regarding the ability to leverage Twitter data for social science research. In particular, gleaning dem...
Andrew Halpern-Manners,John Robert Warren,Florencia Torche
Andrew Halpern-Manners
Does participation in one wave of a survey have an effect on respondents' answers to questions in subsequent waves? In this article, we investigate the presence and magnitude of "panel conditioning" effects in one of the most frequently use...
Joseph W Sakshaug,Mick P Couper,Mary Beth Ofstedal et al.
Joseph W Sakshaug et al.
Survey records are increasingly being linked to administrative databases to enhance the survey data and increase research opportunities for data users. A necessary prerequisite to linking survey and administrative records is obtaining infor...
Propensity Score-Based Methods versus MTE-Based Methods in Causal Inference: Identification, Estimation, and Application [0.03%]
基于倾向值的方法与基于MTE的方法在因果推断中的对比：识别、估计及应用
Xiang Zhou,Y U Xie
Xiang Zhou
Since the seminal introduction of the propensity score by Rosenbaum and Rubin, propensity-score-based (PS-based) methods have been widely used for drawing causal inferences in the behavioral and social sciences. However, the propensity scor...
Prepaid monetary incentives-Predictors of taking the money and completing the survey: Results from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Four Country Survey [0.03%]
预先支付的金钱激励机制——领取金钱和完成调查的预测因素：国际烟草控制政策评估研究四国项目的调查结果
Seema Mutti,Ryan David Kennedy,Mary E Thompson et al.
Seema Mutti et al.
Prepaid monetary incentives are used to address declining response rates in random-digit-dial surveys. There is concern among researchers that some respondents will accept the prepayment but not complete the survey. There is little research...
Focal Points, Endogenous Processes, and Exogenous Shocks in the Autism Epidemic [0.03%]
自闭症流行病中的聚焦点、内生过程和外生冲击
Kayuet Liu,Peter S Bearman
Kayuet Liu
Autism prevalence has increased rapidly in the United States during the past two decades. We have previously shown that the diffusion of information about autism through spatially proximate social relations has contributed significantly to ...
Elizabeth Bruch,Jon Atwell
Elizabeth Bruch
Agent-based modeling has become increasingly popular in recent years, but there is still no codified set of recommendations or practices for how to use these models within a program of empirical research. This article provides ideas and pra...