Recent Work
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Innovations in Probability-Based Internet Panel Data: Exploring the Understanding America Study
This post describes the Understanding America Study, an Internet-based panel which is actively creating an in-depth portrayal of the people in the U.S. – their stories, their daily lives, their preferences and their opinions.
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Cognitive Ability and Financial Capability
We know that income and education are positively associated with financial capability, but we understand less about the impact of other underlying factors, such as motivation, self-control and propensity to plan. This blog post considers one of these factors, cognitive ability, and discusses how financial decisions and wellbeing vary with cognition within income and education groups.
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Income Supplements Boost Health and Wellbeing of Elderly in Developing Countries
The fast pace of population aging presents serious challenges to governments in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). These countries are essentially growing old before they grow rich, leading to a policy conundrum: how to provide financial and health security to the old without breaking the bank.
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Who are the Joneses? Subjective Well-Being and the Income of Others.
We investigate this assumption and try to find out who the Joneses really are. Using the American Life Panel, a nationally representative panel of respondents who regularly answer questions over the Internet, we ask respondents how much they compare themselves to different groups
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Who is the Next President?
Election forecasting is big business. Since we moved to USC we have started building a new and improved probability Internet panel. We call it the Understanding America Study. How well we understand America will become a little clearer in 2016.
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