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...
Representing Micro-Macro Linkages by Actor-Based Dynamic Network Models [0.03%]
基于行动者的动态网络模型表示微观-宏观联系
Tom A B Snijders,Christian E G Steglich
Tom A B Snijders
Stochastic actor-based models for network dynamics have the primary aim of statistical inference about processes of network change, but may be regarded as a kind of agent-based models. Similar to many other agent-based models, they are base...
Tyler J VanderWeele
Tyler J VanderWeele
Analyses of social network data have suggested that obesity, smoking, happiness and loneliness all travel through social networks. Individuals exert "contagion effects" on one another through social ties and association. These analyses have...