• Mass public decisions to promote democracy: the role of foreign policy dispositions

  Muradova, Lala H. (2017-04)

  Recent research argues that public attitudes on foreign policy matters is structured and constrained along broad foreign policy dispositions. Much of the scholarly literature have tested this assumption on foreign policy ...
• Country-of-origin gender ideology and immigrants’ gender role attitudes toward women’s employment

  Pessin, Léa; Arpino, Bruno (2017-02)

  Using cross-classified models and data from the European Social Survey, this article studies whether and under what conditions cultural values associated to gender roles in the country of origin influence immigrants’ gender ...
• The demography of grandparenthood: the role of family histories

  Arpino, Bruno; Gumà, Jordi; Julià, Albert (2017-01)

  The role of grandparents is increasingly important in ageing countries. We use a life course approach aiming at assessing the association between individual family histories (partnership and fertility histories) and ...
• Childcare arrangements and mothers’ satisfaction with work-family balance

  Luppi, Francesca; Arpino, Bruno (2016-11)

  A rapidly growing literature has been focusing on the relationship between fertility and life satisfaction. One key and robust finding in this literature is that parents tend to be more satisfied than their childless ...
• Arguments of physicists concerning the use of the first atomic bomb

  Saris, Willem E.; Gallhofer, Irmtraud N. (2016-02)

  The decisions that politicians have to make with respect to foreign policy are in general very complex because the possible strategies have multiple uncertain consequences. For such complex problems the mathematical decision ...
• Matching pre-processing of splitballot survey data for the analysis of double standards

  Arpino, Bruno (2016-02)

  Split-ballot data are often used to study double standards. The key problem of this design is that individual double standards cannot be identified. We propose a simple two-step approach based on a matching pre-processing ...
• An experiment comparing grids and item‐by‐item formats in web surveys completed through PC and smartphones

  Revilla, Melanie Audrey; Toninelli, Daniele; Ochoa, Carlos (2015-11)

  Purpose: Some respondents already complete web surveys via mobile devices, even when this is unintended. However, these devices vary at several levels from PCs (e.g. screen size). Therefore, it is necessary to study the ...
• Does correction for measurement error have an effect on the structure and comparability of basic human values?

  Lilleoja, Laur; Saris, Willem E. (2015-10)

  It is a well-known fact that survey data always contains measurement errors, which can in different ways bias the results of an analysis (Alwin, 2007). In quantitative research, this problem has usually been ignored due ...
• Evaluation of the quality and invariance of survey questions

  Saris, Willem E. (2014-06)

  At several occasions we have been asked why our research with respect to quality and invariance of survey questions has been based on analyses of product-moment (Pearson) correlations and not on polychoric and polyserial ...
• Implementing propensity score matching with network data: The effect of GATT on bilateral trade

  Arpino, Bruno; De Benedictis, Luca; Mattei, Alessandra (2015-10)

  Motivated by the evaluation of the effect of GATT, we investigate the role of network information in propensity score matching. Under the assumption of strong ignorability, propensity score matching (PSM) is a widely used ...
• Comparing different approaches for propensity score matching with clustered data: a simulation study

  Arpino, Bruno; Cannas, Massimo (2015-03)

  This article focuses on the implementation of propensity score matching for clustered data. Different approaches to reduce bias due to cluster-level confounders are considered and compared using Monte Carlo simulations. ...
• Regular provision of grandchild care and participation in social activities

  Arpino, Bruno; Bordone, Valeria (2015-01)

  A considerable proportion of older people regularly care for their grandchildren. This role in later life may subtract time and energies from participation in social activities, which are considered fundamental for active ...
• Do online access panels really need to allow and adapt surveys to mobile devices?

  Revilla, Melanie Audrey; Toninelli, Daniele; Ochoa, Carlos; Loewe, Germán (2014-10)

  Researchers are more and more interested in the possibility of using mobile web for completing surveys, because they have observed that some respondents already try to complete web surveys via mobile devices, even when ...
• Evaluations of the measurement of the concepts ‘Political Satisfaction’ and ‘Quality of state services’

  Pirralha, André; Weber, Wiebke (2014-10)

  In this paper we study the concepts ‘Political satisfaction’ and ‘Quality of state services’, included in the European Social Survey since the first round. We test whether these concepts can be compared across countries ...
• What are the links in a web survey between response time, quality and autoevaluation of the efforts done?

  Revilla, Melanie Audrey; Ochoa, Carlos (2013)

  Evaluating the quality of the data is a key preoccupation for researchers to be confident in their results. When web surveys are used, it seems even more crucial since the researchers have less control on the data collection ...
• How the form of asking respondents’ three preferred brands changes the results

  Revilla, Melanie Audrey; Ochoa, Carlos; Loewe, Germán (2013)

  In surveys, different results can be obtained depending the form used to ask the information to respondents. A lot is already known about the impact of some characteristics of the scales. However, little is known about ...
• Quality of different scales in an online survey in Mexico and Colombia

  Revilla, Melanie Audrey; Ochoa, Carlos (2013)

  The formulation of theories and hypotheses is done at the level of concepts. In order to test them, these concepts are often operationalized using survey questions. However, survey questions never measure the concepts of ...
• A procedure to prevent differences in translated survey items using SQP

  Zavala-Rojas, Diana (2014-06)

  Survey translation has developed best practice procedures to translate survey instruments aiming that the same stimuli and measurement properties should be provided. However, it is very difficult to check in a systematic ...
• Forcing respondents of online surveys to slow down: An effective strategy?

  Revilla, Melanie Audrey; Ochoa, Carlos; Turbina Baguena, Albert; Saris, Willem E. (2014)

  The goal of this paper is to investigate the effects of forcing the respondents to slow down while answering online surveys. This is done by setting up an experiment with respondents from the Netquest panel in Mexico in ...
• Impact of formulating a careful introduction and ask respondents to commit themselves on the quality in a web panel survey

  Revilla, Melanie Audrey (2013)

  Web surveys are becoming every day more present in survey research. However, there are still problems with these surveys that have not been solved yet, in particular in the case of online panels using economic incentives. ...

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