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Why Won’t Santa Answer His Survey?
In this changing, mobile, interconnected world, how can we improve the way in which we reach and understand the population?
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USC mHealth Collaboratory
The USC mHealth Collaboratory brings together expertise and interests in health and health care, mobile health research, wireless, digital and network technology, smartphones, wearable and deployable sensors, user-centered design, game design and more.
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To Delay (School Entry) or Not to Delay; That is the Question.
At what age children should start school is controversial because there are reasonable arguments supporting both on-time and delayed school entry.
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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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Financial Health May Be As Easy as 1,2,3
What happens when regular people need to navigate an increasingly complex financial landscape?
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Survey Measures of Happiness
Governments around the world are increasingly interested in using survey measures of happiness for the purpose of guiding policy—but it’s not entirely clear how they should do it.
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Five Myths about Cancer Care in America
Dana Goldman and Tomas Philipson highlight the consequence of common myths about cancer care including drawing the public’;s attention away from the
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Uninformed Decision Making: How Prepared are Americans to Navigate the ACA?
Our work suggests that lack of preparedness is indeed a problem.
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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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Where Obamacare Went Wrong (Or Did It?)
The key political mistake – but not a policy mistake – was tying this reform to an individual mandate.
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