Do Campaigns Really Change Behavior?

Do Campaigns Really Change Behavior? New Understanding of the Behavioral Effects of Advertising, Political Campaigns and Health Communication Campaigns

When Etiquette Really Matters: Relational Agents and Behavior Change

Etiquette is about adhering to prescribed norms in social interactions, or about negotiating and making explicit interactional norms when they do not already exist. While these play a role in most realms of human interaction, the establishment of such norms has been demonstrated to be especially crucial in domains in which a person is attempting to undergo a change in behavior or cognitive or a...

Do Campaigns Drive Partisan Turnout?

Although campaign strategy often, and perhaps increasingly, emphasizes the mobilization of core supporters, we know little about whether campaigns affect the partisan complexion of the electorate. We examine whether the balance of Democratic and Republican voters depends on the balance of campaign activity, the popularity of the incumbent president, and the state of the economy. Drawing on time...

„Real-Time Datasets Really Do Make a Difference: Definitional Change, Data Release and Forecasting“ Real-Time Datasets Really Do Make a Difference: Definitional Change, Data Release, and Forecasting∗

In this paper we ask the following three questions. First, does the usefulness of a real-time dataset depend upon which release of data we are interested in forecasting; and are real-time datasets useful, in general? Second, what are the trade-offs associated with: early release inefficiency; early release measurement error; the impact that definitional change has on time series consisting of o...

They really do go.

While it is technically correct that 70-80% of rural or underserved origin candidates do not go ‘outside’ current concentrations of physicians and health resources, the appropriate statistical analysis reveals that they really do go at rates 2, 4, 6, or 10 times higher than the typical medical students. Others also go, such as the 75% of rural physicians who have urban origins or those with top...