Category: LISS panel

Although Mobile Instant Messenger Services play an increasingly important role in social and political participation of citizens and the spreading of information, we know surprisingly little about these networks. Most research on social media focuses on “traditional” social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook, because in contrast to MIMSs, data from these platforms are…

Ostracism—being ignored and excluded—is a ubiquitous yet extremely painful experience. While the negative consequences of ostracism are widely acknowledged, the root causes of ostracism are poorly understood. Past studies dispersed across several areas within social and health sciences have identified several disparate variables that purportedly shape people’s subjective feelings of ostracism, such as having a…

At present there is a lack of evidence when and how informed consent should be performed in radiological healthcare. This problem plays a role in 1)interventional radiology, 2)diagnostic radiology, and 3)retrospective radiology research. So far, the issue of informed consent has only been discussed from the viewpoint of healthcare professionals, whereas the voice of the…

Support and sanctions for recipients of social assistance benefits are designed to serve a number of different purposes at the same time: protecting households against poverty, offer support to benefit recipients to contribute to society, and ensure that the system is sustainable, affordable and enjoys societal support. In the Netherlands, there is a discrepancy between…

The Netherlands has adopted a formal childcare investment strategy to promote, in particular, the societal and educational integration of children from disadvantaged backgrounds. However, its particularly low-income families and families with migration backgrounds who make significantly less use of formal childcare, creating long-term inequalities for both children and parents. A key but understudied factor behind…

We aim to study people’s opinions about policy experimentation. Two recent studies show conflicting evidence: the study by Meyer et al. (2019) in PNAS finds experimentation aversion in a variety of contexts, while Mislavsky et al. (2019) finds in the context of business experimentation that people only oppose experiments when the experiment involves a policy…

The ever-increasing number of people with nutritional intake-related diseases such as obesity, cardiovascular disease, and type 2 diabetes has led governments and scientists worldwide to closely monitor the food and beverage intake of inhabitants, to facilitate the development of healthy dietary habits. Here, we propose that when addressing the health implications of unhealthy eating, not…

Putting an exact value on assets is often difficult since it involves a complicated process of trading off different attributes. This difficulty can lead to valuation uncertainty; people consider a range of possible values for an asset instead of one exact value. Valuation uncertainty has important scientific, practical, and societal implications. It is, however, difficult…

The Covid19-pandemic has had substantial effects on households’ consumption and time use behavior due to social distancing, job loss, and work from home. Using a new 2021-wave of the LISS Time Use and Consumption data, we study the extent to which the Covid19-pandemic has changed patterns of households’ consumption and time use in the post-Covid19-pandemic…