Lehrkräfte aller Schulformen bewegen sich heutzutage in einem ausgesprochen diffizilen sozialen Spannungsfeld. Einzelne Erscheinungen in diesem Spannungsfeld wie das Sozialgefüge des jeweiligen Klassenverbandes, das situative Auftreten einzelner Schüler:innen, die Erwartungen und die mehr...

Lehrkräfte aller Schulformen bewegen sich heutzutage in einem ausgesprochen diffizilen sozialen Spannungsfeld. Einzelne Erscheinungen in diesem Spannungsfeld wie das Sozialgefüge des jeweiligen Klassenverbandes, das situative Auftreten einzelner Schüler:innen, die Erwartungen und die mehr...

We propose a novel view of selection bias in longitudinal surveys. Such bias may arise from initial nonresponse in a probability sample, or it may be caused by self-selection in an internet survey. A contraction theorem from mathematical demography is used to show that an initial bias can...

Short-time work (STW) in Germany allows for a lot of flexibility in actual usage. Ex ante, firms notify the Federal Employment Agency about the total number of employees eligible, and, up to the total granted, firms can flexibly choose how many employees actually use STW. In firm-level surveys,...

Short-time work (STW) in Germany allows for a lot of flexibility in actual usage. Ex ante, firms notify the Employment Agency about the total number of employees eligible, and, up to the total granted, firms can flexibly choose how many employees actually use STW. In firm-level surveys, which...

Very little empirical research has been done to determine the effectiveness of interview practice on patent prosecution. Examiner interviews allow for a direct conversation between an applicant and an examiner to help reduce misunderstanding as to the scope of the prior art or claim scope as...

We evaluate how nonresponse affects conclusions drawn from survey data and consider how researchers can reliably test and correct for nonresponse bias. To do so, we examine a survey on labor market conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic that used randomly assigned financial incentives to...

Imagine the situation in which an econometrician can infer the distribution of welfare gains induced by the provision of higher education financial aid using survey data obtained from a set of individuals, and can estimate the same distribution using a highly incentivized field experiment in...

Researchers and policy makers face significant challenges in selecting a method to conduct remote surveys, especially when collecting sensitive information or during turbulent life stages of hard-to-reach groups. In the context of the COVID-19 lockdown, we randomly selected about 600 adults in...

Bicchieri and Xiao (2009) proposed one of the first methods to elicit normative expectations. Using a two-step procedure, the method first elicits non-incentivized reports of subjects’ Personal Normative Beliefs (PNBs) about which action is normatively best. In the second step, subjects are...

Response rates to important surveys used in social science research have been falling precipitously over the last few decades, raising questions about the representativeness of the resulting data and the quality of evidence that comes from it. We examine how partisan preferences influence...

Mit Ausbreitung der COVID-19-Pandemie ab 2020 stellten sich abrupt starke Herausforderungen für Gesellschaft, Politik und Unternehmen. Die sich rasch ausbreitende Virusinfektion bedrohte Gesundheit und Leben und forderte daher drastische Maßnahmen, vor allem mit dem Ziel der...

This paper experimentally analyses the effects of in-person canvassing and postal reminders on the mobilization of non-respondents for a telephone panel survey in Germany. We compare the response rates among randomly selected individuals who were visited by canvassers and those reminded by an...

COVID patent waiver is an interesting but virtually irrelevant debate. If every patent holder tomorrow morning announced “we will not be enforcing any of the patents that we have that relate to COVID vaccines,” you know what would happen to the worldwide manufacturing distribution of...

Survey refusal in the Current Population Survey (CPS) has tripled over the last decade. This rise coincides with the emergence of rhetoric, largely from the political right, questioning the accuracy and integrity of government statistics. We examine how support for the Tea Party and the...

The report is intended for senior managers and decision-makers of internationalisation strategies at higher education institutions around the world, and organisations that are involved in consulting, advertisement and support of the internationalisation of higher education. Based upon 136...

This paper examines the key elements of the quantitative content analysis developed by the scientist Philip Mayring as a method of data evaluation. First, the circular research process is presented to explain the application of this method for scientific interviews in student theses. The content...

Redistribution differs widely across countries, but our understanding of why this is the case is limited. In democracies, the extent of redistribution should ultimately reflect citizens' preferences. We measure preferences for redistribution in six developed countries through internationally...

Im Zuge des Zensus 2022 werden grundlegende Daten über die Bevölkerung und die Wohnungssituation in Deutschland erhoben. Die Haushaltebefragung auf Stichprobenbasis ist Teil des Zensus 2022, sie wird mit vergleichbarer Methodik wie beim Zensus 2011 durchgeführt. Um das Erhebungsverfahren und...

This paper aims to examine the challenges of expanding access to an affordable electricity supply for rural households by addressing the subsidies and cost recovery of the existing tariff policy in the context of Uttar Pradesh (UP), India. The study used household survey data to assess the...

Die vorliegende Studie untersucht den Zusammenhang zwischen Digitalisierungs- und Innovationsvorhaben in mittelständischen Unternehmen in Deutschland. Ausgangspunkt der Studie ist eine auseinanderlaufende Entwicklung der beiden Aktivitäten in den vergangenen Jahren. Während der Anteil der...

[Einleitung] Am 11. März 2020 erklärte die Weltgesundheitsorganisation die neuartige Covid-19-Erkrankung zur globalen Pandemie. In Ermangelung medizinischer Behandlungs- und Schutzmöglichkeiten wurden auf der ganzen Welt seitdem nicht-pharmazeutische Maßnahmen gegen eine ungebremste...

Since January 2020, the COVID-19 crisis has affected everyday life around the world, and rigorous government lockdown restrictions have been implemented to prevent the further spread of the pandemic. The consequences of the corona crisis and the associated lockdown policies for public health,...

Seit Ausbruch der Corona-Pandemie haben sich in den sozialen Medien verschiedenste Verschwörungserzählungen ausgebreitet. Weiterhin werden traditionelle Medien im Allgemeinen stärker genutzt und als deutlich glaubwürdiger eingeschätzt als soziale Medien. Dies zeigt eine Auswertung der im...