• How politicians learn from citizens' feedback: the case of gender on Twitter

  Schöll, Nikolas; Gallego Dobón, Aina; Le Mens, Gaël (Wiley, 2023)

  This article studies how politicians react to feedback from citizens on social media. We use a reinforcement-learning framework to model how politicians respond to citizens’ positive feedback by increasing attention to ...
• Interpersonal resources and insider/outsider dynamics in party office

  Martínez-Cantó, Javier; Verge Mestre, Tània (SAGE Publications, 2023)

  While the multiple barriers women face to attain public office have been vastly documented, the operation of insider/outsider dynamics within political parties’ top decision-making bodies remains largely under-researched. ...
• Impact of COVID-19 inequalities on children: an intersectional analysis

  Lemkow–Tovías, Gabriel; Cash-Gibson, Lucinda, 1984-; Teixidó i Compañó, Ester, 1983-; Benach, Joan (Wiley, 2023)

  Societal concerns about the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have largely focussed on the social groups most directly affected, such as the elderly and health workers. However, less focus has been placed on understanding ...
• Stochastic simulation of successive waves of COVID-19 in the province of Barcelona

  Bosman, Martine; Esteve, Albert; Gabbanelli, Luciano; Jordán Parra, Javier; López-Gay, Antonio; Manera, Marc; Martínez, Manel; Masjuan, Pere; Mir, Lluïsa-Maria; Paradells, Josep; Pignatelli, Alessio; Riu, Imma; Vitagliano, Vincenzo (KeAi Communications, 2023)

  Analytic compartmental models are currently used in mathematical epidemiology to forecast the COVID-19 pandemic evolution and explore the impact of mitigation strategies. In general, such models treat the population as a ...
• Towards a systemic understanding of sustainable wellbeing for all in cities: a conceptual framework

  Cash-Gibson, Lucinda, 1984-; Muntané Isart, Ferran; Martínez-Herrera, Eliana; Martínez Herrera, Julián; Benach, Joan (Elsevier, 2023)

  We are facing socio-ecological crises and failing to meet the basic needs of everyone in society whilst living within planetary boundaries. These interconnected problems are complex, which require urgent transdisciplinary ...
• Is there a growing use of mobile devices in web surveys? Evidence from 128 web surveys in Germany

  Gummer, Tobias; Höhne, Jan Karem; Rettig, Tobias; Roßmann, Joss; Kummerow, Mirjan (Springer, 2023)

  Recent advances in web survey methodology were motivated by the observation that respondents increasingly use mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, to participate in web surveys. Even though we do not doubt this ...
• Qualitative evaluation of an intervention to reduce energy poverty

  Jacques-Aviñó, Constanza; Dvorzak, José Luis; Marí-Dell’Olmo, Marc; Rodriguez Arjona, Dolors; Peralta Chiriboga, Alejandro Andrés, 1985-; Carrere Balcells, Juli, 1988-; Benach, Joan; Ramos, Cristina; Plana, Mònica; López, María José (Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Saúde Pública, 2019)

  To evaluate the “Energía, la justa” program, aimed at reducing energy poverty in the city of Barcelona, from the point of view of the target population and the workers involved in the intervention. A qualitative, descriptive ...
• Project integrate: developing a framework to guide design, implementation and evaluation of people-centred integrated care processes

  Cash-Gibson, Lucinda, 1984-; Tigova, Olena; Alonso, Albert; Binkley, George; Rosenmöller, Magda (Ubiquity Press, 2019)

  People-centred integrated care is an acknowledged approach to improve the quality and effectiveness of health systems in delivering care around people's needs and preferences. Nevertheless, more guidance on how to effectively ...
• Matching with clustered data: the CMatching package in R

  Cannas, Massimo; Arpino, Bruno (The R Foundation, 2019)

  Matching is a well known technique to balance covariates distribution between treated and control units in non-experimental studies. In many fields, clustered data are a very common occurrence in the analysis of observational ...
• Association between precarious employment and chronic stress: Effect of gender, stress measurement and precariousness dimensions-A cross-sectional study

  Julià Pérez, Mireia, 1981-; Méndez-Rivero, Fabrizio; Gómez-Gómez, Àlex; Pozo Mendoza, Óscar J., 1975-; Bolíbar, Mireia (MDPI, 2022)

  Precarious employment has been highlighted as a social determinant of health, given, among others, to its alleged association with chronic stress. However, few studies have been conducted analyzing such association, using ...
• Why environmentalists eat meat

  Scott, Evon; Kallis, Giorgos; Zografos, Christos (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019)

  Why do people who care about the environment adopt behaviours that are not consistent with their beliefs? Previous studies approach this as a case of cognitive dissonance, researchers looking into the strategies through ...
• Perceived economic self-sufficiency: a country- and generation-comparative approach

  Tosun, Jale; Vancea, Mihaela; Vegetti, Federico (Springer, 2019)

  Existing datasets provided by statistical agencies (e.g. Eurostat) show that the economic and financial crisis that unfolded in 2008 significantly impacted the lives and livelihoods of young people across Europe. Taking ...
• Evaluation of the effectiveness and equity of the maternity protection reform in Chile from 2000 to 2015

  Delgado, Iris; Cabieses, Baltica; Apablaza, Mauricio; Castillo, Carla; Aguilera, Ximena; Matute, Isabel; Najera, Manuel; Pericàs, Juan; Benach, Joan (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019)

  According to the International Labor Organization, Maternity Protection (MP) policies try to harmonize child care and women's paid work, without affecting family health and economic security. Chile Law 20.545 (2011) increased ...
• Multisource assessment for development purposes: revisiting the methodology of data analysis

  Batista-Foguet, Joan Manuel; Saris, Willem E.; Boyatzis, Richard E.; Serlavós, Ricard; Velasco Moreno, Ferran (Frontiers, 2019)

  Multisource assessment (MSA) is based on the belief that assessments are valid inferences about an individual’s behavior. When used for performance management purposes, convergence of views among raters is important, and ...
• Measuring precarious employment in Sweden: translation, adaptation and psychometric properties of the employment precariousness scale (EPRES)

  Jonsson, Johanna; Vives Vergara, Alejandra; Benach, Joan; Kjellberg, Katarina; Selander, Jenny; Johansson, Gun; Bodin, Theo (BMJ Publishing Group, 2019)

  Precarious employment (PE) is a determinant of poor health and health inequality. However, the evidence of health consequences and mechanisms underlying the associations, are still limited due to a lack of a comprehensive ...
• Industrial espionage and productivity

  Glitz, Albrecht Christian Ekkehard, 1978-; Meyersson, Erik (American Economic Association, 2020)

  In this paper, we investigate the economic returns to industrial espionage. We show that the flow of information provided by East German informants in the West over the period 1970–1989 led to a significant narrowing of ...
• Willingness of online panelists to perform additional tasks

  Revilla, Melanie; Couper, Mick P.; Ochoa, Carlos (GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, 2019)

  People’s willingness to share data with researchers is the fundamental raw material for most social science research. So far, survey researchers have mainly asked respondents to share data in the form of answers to survey ...
• No country for the right wing? Actores, trayectoria, oferta y demanda de la derecha en Ecuador

  Moncagatta, Paolo; Espinosa, Carlos (Universidad de los Andes, 2019)

  En este artículo se describen y analizan el desempeño, la oferta, la organización y la acogida electoral de la derecha en Ecuador entre 1998 y 2018, un período en el que esta tendencia ideológica enfrentó condicionamientos ...
• Political and affective polarisation in a democracy in crisis: the E-Dem panel survey dataset (Spain, 2018–2019)

  Torcal, Mariano; Santana, Andrés; Carty, Emily; Comellas, Josep Maria (Elsevier, 2020)

  The E-DEM dataset provides information on the evolution of political and affective polarisation and electoral behaviour in the aftermath of the political crisis that shook the Spanish party system starting in 2014. The ...
• Augmenting surveys with data from sensors and apps: opportunities and challenges

  Struminskaya, Bella; Lugtig, Peter; Keusch, Florian; Höhne, Jan Karem (SAGE Publications, 2020)

  The increasing volume of “Big Data” produced by sensors and smart devices can transform the social and behavioral sciences. Several successful studies used digital data to provide new insights into social reality. This ...

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