Using the Nielsen Consumer Panel, we document the presence of significant price heterogeneity in the United States. Poor households pay lower prices for the same products, mostly because they shop more at discount stores. However, we also find that price heterogeneity has a very small impact on the measurement of consumption inequality. Adjusting nominal household expenditures by imposing that ...

As electronic government services (e-government) evolve, traditional applications such as online portals are encountering challenges in a new digital era in which people thirst for more convenient, diverse channels of communication with their government. Despite the efforts devoted to the promotion of Social Networking Service (SNS) use in e-government for the past few years, empirical studies ...

Twitter has become a very popular microblog website and had attracted millions of users up to 2009. It is generally considered as a social networking website but gradually also used as a media for people or companies to spread out news or marketing information. One reason for considering Twitter as a media that broadcasts information instead of a social network is that on Twitter the friendship...

BACKGROUND Website evaluation is a key issue for researchers, organizations, and others responsible for designing, maintaining, endorsing, approving, and/or assessing the use and impact of interventions designed to influence health and health services. Traditionally, these evaluations have included elements such as content credibility, interface usability, and overall design aesthetics. With th...

Social networking sites (SNS) have become a significant component of people’s daily lives and have revolutionized the ways that business is conducted, from product development and marketing to operation and human resource management. However, there have been few systematic studies that ask why people use such systems. To try to determine why, we proposed a model based on uses and gratifications...

This paper investigates the extent to which Web 2.0 applications are prevalent in government websites, the ways in which Web 2.0 applications been used in government websites, as well as whether the presence of Web 2.0 applications correlate with the perceived quality of government websites. Divided equally between developing and advanced economies, a total of 200 government websites were analy...