Informed participation: the effects of information treatment on panel non-response

Ricardo Santos and Sam Jones

No wp-2021-140, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: This paper builds on a longitudinal school-to-work transition phone survey experiment to quantify the effects on attrition of communicating with participants. Specifically, we study the impact of sending topically relevant information on job market conditions via SMS at the start of each survey round. Testing various information treatments, which differ in their granularity, including survival analysis, we find they all significantly reduce the instantaneous risk of non-response, with an estimate of instantaneous hazard reduction of around 30 per cent.

Keywords: Survey; Participation; Information; Survival analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-isf
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.wider.unu.edu/sites/default/files/Publ ... nel-non-response.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:unu:wpaper:wp-2021-140

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Siméon Rapin ().