De LISS panel grant call biedt financiering van dataverzameling via het LISS panel. In de Call for Proposals van 2023 hebben we 34 aanmeldingen ontvangen. In totaal konden 6 reguliere LISS-panelsgrants worden toegekend en twee grants voor een project dat de dataverzameling van het LISS-panel combineerde met toegang tot de CBS-microdata.
De volgende 8 projecten hebben de LISS panel beurzen van 2023 ontvangen (in alfabetische volgorde en beschreven in het Engels).
Typifying rule-followers and rule-breakers: the effect of greed on rule-compliance
Karlijn Hoyer (University of Amsterdam); Lucas Molleman (University of Amsterdam)
For societies to adequately respond to pressing challenges like climate change, citizens need to follow behavioral rules, even when it involves personal sacrifices like reducing your carbon footprint. Rule violations are widespread, illustrating the need for a deeper understanding of when and why people follow rules. This project will examine the role of greed, the insatiable desire to acquire more. Greed is known to induce self-interested and unethical behavior, but does it also lead to rule violations, even when the benefits of violation are small? The first goal of this project is to experimentally test the effect of greed on rule-compliance in situations in which the gains of violation are high versus low. We test this using an incentivized experimental rule-following paradigm. Secondly, we aim to further typify rule-followers and rule-breakers, by correlating the measurements with a set of candidate personality traits and demographics previously measured in the LISS panel.
Measuring Uncertainty Perception in the Health Domain
Vahid Moghani (Erasmus University Rotterdam); Aurelien Baillon (Emlyon Business School), Francesco Capozza (WZB)
This project is extended with the grant for linking the LISS panel data to CBS microdata.
When people perceive more uncertainty about the risks they face, they may, somewhat counterintuitively, do less in terms of prevention effort. For instance, being unsure about the health risks they face, they may fail to adopt healthy behavior. In this project, we measure people’s uncertainty perception about their health care expenditures and test how personalized information about health risks impacts their preventive health investments.
Urban Heat Inequality: Empowering Vulnerable Households in Combating Heat Exposure in their Environments
Maha Moustafa Habib Abdelraouf (TU Delft); Maarten van Ham (TU Delft); Marjolein van Esch (TU Delft)
When people perceive more uncertainty about the risks they face, they may, somewhat counterintuitively, do less in terms of prevention effort. For instance, being unsure about the health risks they face, they may fail to adopt healthy behavior. In this project, we measure people’s uncertainty perception about their health care expenditures and test how personalized information about health risks impacts their preventive health investments.
Gender and Ethnic Differences in Self-presentation Strategies: A Vignette Survey Experiment in Human vs. Automated Recruitment
Huyen Nguyen (Utrecht University); Frank van Tubergen (Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI)); Valentina Di Stasio (Utrecht University)
Despite the growth of artificial intelligence (AI) in hiring, limited evidence exists on whether job candidates from different backgrounds self-present differently, and how they would adapt their self-presentation strategies to algorithmic hiring tools. While algorithmic systems hold promises to tackle persistent hiring inequality and discrimination, people’s self-confidence and perception of discrimination may shape their self-presentation strategies and their willingness to embrace such tools. Our study fills this gap with a vignette survey experiment to structurally map open-ended text answers to common interview questions with validated measures of self-confidence and perceived discrimination in the job market. Together with the linked LISS data on Work and Schooling, Personality, Politics and Values, we can map self-presentation strategies to social segregation and mobility patterns and inform policymakers of equitable AI recruitment systems.
Social class: an exploitation-based class scheme
Jaap Nieuwenhuis (University of Groningen); Agata Troost (University of Groningen); Jonathan Mijs (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
With this project, we aim to enrich and innovate research in social stratification by collecting fine-grained data to operationalize an exploitation-based class scheme, currently underused in the social sciences. Current understanding of social inequality is based on indicators such as income and education, used as proxies for a person’s social position and experiences. We argue that to really understand social inequality and stratification, we need better data on class dynamics between different socioeconomic positions in society and of people’s understanding of their own position within the social hierarchy. Expanding the toolkit for understanding social stratification will enable researchers and policy makers to better analyse other problems related to inequality and polarization, such as voting behaviour and belief in meritocracy.
Probing the causal pathways between police procedural justice and perceptions of police legitimacy using experimental vignettes
Amy Nivette (Utrecht University); Isabelle van der Vegt (Utrecht University)
To what extent can a single interaction with the police shape how people feel about the police? How do we know for sure it’s about how police treat people, and not something else about the situation? And why might respectful treatment motivate people to comply? Previous research has focused primarily on the impact of extreme police behaviors in shaping public attitudes, with most studies conducted in the United States. This project aims to unpack how and why certain police behaviors during a routine interaction can change people’s attitudes in the Dutch context. Using vignettes that depict an interaction during a routine traffic stop, combined with additional follow-up questions and open-text answers, we will be able to evaluate both the effects and underlying mechanisms that connect police behavior and individual attitudes.
Cognitive strengths and deficits in adverse conditions: A balanced view
Stefan Vermeent (Utrecht University); Nicole Walasek (Utrecht University); Willem Frankenhuis (University of Amsterdam)
This project is extended with the grant for linking the LISS panel data to CBS microdata.
The dominant view in the social sciences is that, on average, exposure to adversity impairs cognitive abilities, such as planning, goal-directed behavior, and self-control. This view, however, is incomplete: people might also develop intact, or even enhanced, abilities for solving challenges in adverse conditions. Understanding these abilities is critical to close achievement gaps in education and job contexts. Here, we will investigate the associations between two types of adversity—exposure to violence and poverty—and two cognitive abilities that are central to successful goal-directed behavior and self-control: switching attention and ignoring distractions. The central question is: to what extent does adversity impair/enhance abilities, and to what extent does it shape other processes—such as being more cautious? We will answer these questions using a well-developed analytic technique, Drift Diffusion Modeling. The results will have implications for fundamental science and can inform policy and interventions aimed at alleviating the negative impact of adversity
Does incongruence between civil servants’ and citizens’ socioeconomic status negatively affect how citizens relate to civil servants and local governments? A vignette survey experiment
Vivian Visser (Erasmus University Rotterdam); Willem de Koster (Erasmus University Rotterdam); Jeroen van der Waal (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Inspired by the literature on ‘diploma democracies’, indicating that the overrepresentation of higher socioeconomic status (SES) politicians reduces lower SES citizens’ political trust and voter turn-out, we want to study the effect of civil servants’ SES background on how citizens relate to both civil servants and local governments. Given that today’s bureaucratic organizations are dominated by higher SES professionals, we use a pre-registered population-based vignette survey experiment to test whether (in)congruence between civil servants’ and citizens’ SES affects how citizens relate to civil servants local governments. We expect that when there is a congruence between civil servants’ and citizens’ SES, citizens a) perceive more cultural proximity between themselves and civil servants, b) have more trust in civil servants and the local government, and c) are more willing to participate with civil servants and the local government. Our study therewith crucially advances our understanding of democratic (non-)participation, and provides a starting point for tackling the unwanted underrepresentation in all forms of participatory democracy of citizens with a lower SES.
De reviewers in deze ronde waren: Weverthon Barbosa Machado (UU); Thomas Douenne (UvA); Erika van Elsas (RU); Katya Ivanova (TiU), Jochem Tolsma (RUG/RU).