We test the effectiveness of different AI-delivered conversation protocols to increase people' motivation for change. In a large-scale experiment with 2,719 social media users, we randomly assign participants to a control conversation or one of three treatment arms: two Motivational Interviewing...

We test the effectiveness of different AI-delivered conversation protocols to increase people's motivation for change. In a large-scale experiment with 2,719 social media users, we randomly assign participants to a control conversation or one of three treatment arms: two Motivational...

A major food safety recall of infant formula in February 2022 in the United States caused significant disruptions in the supply chain that was already fragile, causing a severe shortage in the marketplace. This study examines its implications using data gathered from qualitative interviews with...

Central bank surveys frequently elicit households’ probabilistic beliefs about future inflation by employing response scales centered around zero inflation. Analyzing data from the high-inflation period of 2022/2023, we demonstrate how this practice leads to distortions in households'...

Current estimates of child labour often rely on questions such as, "How many hours did you work last week?" While biases in adult self-reports are well-documented in high-income countries, there is limited evidence on the accuracy of children's responses in low- and middle-income countries...

Purpose - This study aims to check whether the conclusions of measuring the firm life cycle by a model related to economics and finance (Dickinson model) are consistent with the model related to management (Greiner model). Design/methodology/approach - We applied the technique of individual...

Recent events have posed considerable challenges to supply chain, as demonstrated by trade data. Yet, firm-level information on the recent challenges remains scarce. The Supply Chain Disruption Survey addresses this gap by generating insights into firms' experiences and expectations regarding...

This paper investigates whether political partisanship and political narratives affect voters' opinions about public finances. In a novel survey experiment, we test the causal effect of pro-consolidation and pro-public investment narratives used in German general election campaigns on...

This article develops a novel economic sentiment indicator (LLM-ESI) by applying large language models to open-ended responses from Swiss business tendency surveys. Using a BERT-based transformer model, it extracts firmlevel sentiment from free-text survey comments and aggregates it into a...

Auch wenn die Arbeitsnachfrage in jüngster Vergangenheit gesunken ist und die Arbeitslosigkeit zugenommen hat, wodurch ein potenziell größeres Arbeitsangebot besteht, fällt es Unternehmen weiterhin schwer, offene Stellen adäquat zu besetzen. Zusätzlich wird, bedingt durch den...

Der vorliegende Forschungsbericht fasst die wesentlichen Ergebnisse einer repräsentativen Befragung von Auszubildenden in Deutschland zusammen. Im Rahmen des Forschungsprojekts CKoBeLeP Crowdwork und Crowdworker vor, während und nach der beruflichen Ausbildung -...

Interviews allow employers to learn about workers, but do they also enable workers to learn about firms? Studying 500,000 interview reports from Glassdoor, we find candidates for high-paying jobs are more likely to reject a job offer if they believe the interview was easy. Easy interviews appear...

Accurate and timely poverty measurement is central to development policy, yet the availability of up-to-date high-quality household survey data remains limited-particularly in countries where poverty is most concentrated. Survey-to-survey imputation has emerged as a practical response to this...

This paper outlines the sampling and weighting process for the M9 sample, an augmentation sample for the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees. It augments the samples M3, M4, M5, and M6 with refugees entering Germany between January 1, 2017, and the August 31, 2022. It also adds refugees from...

LLMs are emerging as information sources that influence organizational knowledge, though trust in them varies. This paper combines data from a large-scale experiment and the World Values Survey (WVS) to examine the determinants of trust in LLMs. The experiment measures trust in LLM-generated...

We study response behavior in surveys and propose a method to identify and improve the informativeness of survey evidence. First, we develop a choice model of survey response behavior under the assumption that responses imperfectly reveal respondents' characteristics due to limited...

Economists routinely use survey measures of, for example, risk preferences, trust, political attitudes, or wellbeing. The literature generally treats numerical response categories as if they represent equal psychological intervals. We provide the first systematic test of this assumption,...