CIPHER 2020
We held our second CIPHER conference, 26-27 February 2020 in Washington, D.C. It was hosted by the Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center (GFLEC).
Program and Presentations
The conference took place Februrary 26 – 27 in Washington D.C.
For videos of the CIPHER presentations, see here.
Agenda
PROGRAM
February 26 – February 27, 2020
Steering Committee: Arie Kapteyn, Lila Rabinovich, Joanne Yoong, Jill Darling, Marco Angrisani, University of Southern California and Marcel Das, Tilburg University
Location: George Washington University (Elliott School of International Affairs – City View Room) 1957 E Street NW Washington, DC 20052.
| SESSION 42 PM | New Data Collection – Promise and PitfallsSession Chair: Marcin Hitczenko (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta) |
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| Marcel Das (CentERdata, Tilburg University)Innovation in online data collection for scientific research: The Dutch LISS panelPresentation | | |
| Arie Kapteyn (CESR)Does Feedback from Activity Trackers influence Physical Activity? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled TrialPresentation | | |
| SESSION 52:45 PM | Enabling Mixed MethodsSession Chair: Lila Rabinovich (CESR) |
| Andrew Parker (RAND)Mixed Qualitative-Quantitative Methods Using Online Panels to Understand Never, Sometimes, and Always Flu VaccinatorsPresentation | | |
| Matthias Schonlau (University of Waterloo)Automatic Coding of Text Answers to Open-ended Questions: Should you Double Code the Training Data?Presentation | | |
| 3:30 PM | Break |
| SESSION 64:00 PM | Interdisciplinary ResearchSession Chair: Jeremy Burke (CESR) |
| Gema Zamarro (University of Arkansas)Coordination, Personality, and Cognitive Ability: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Internet PanelPresentation | | |
| JoNell Strough (West Virginia University)Societal Norms and Risk Aversion in Medical Treatment DecisionsPresentation | | |
| 4:45 PM | Closing Remarks for Day 1 |
| 5:15 PM | Reception |
| SESSION 1012 PM | Informing Evidence-based PolicySession Chair: Jude Soundararajan (SSA) |
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| Patricia Delafuente (UMBC)Social Security Administration – Understanding Impact of Technology on Preferences of Receiving the Social Security StatementPresentation | | |
| Francisco Perez-Arce (CESR)What Difference Can Three Words Make? The Impact of Social Security Terminology on RetirementPresentation | | |
| 1:00 PM | Closing Remarks |
| 1:15 PM | Lunch |
Conference Organizers: Kristin Burnell (GFLEC), Tania Gutsche, Tarra Kohli, Lila Rabinovich, Pam Tyler, and Joanne Yoong
For a full list of speakers’ bios, please see here.
CIPHER Conference
Keynote
We are pleased to announce that our keynote speaker is Professor Annette Jäckle, Professor of Survey Methodology and Associate Director of Innovations for Understanding Society, University of Essex.
More Information
As population-representative online panels become more prominent in economic, social science and health research, researchers and policymakers continue to explore new ways to further increase their quality and usefulness. The Center for Economic and Social Research launched the annual “Current Innovations in Probability-based Household Internet Panel Research (CIPHER)” conference in 2019, to provide a platform for rigorous, time-sensitive and policy-relevant exchange on these issues.
To watch videos from our inaugural event, click here for the past agenda and video links where available.
This year, we are broadening the scope of the event to ensure inclusion of more international perspectives, and that voices from the policy, non-governmental and private sectors are more fully represented.
CIPHER 2020 will focus on new approaches to the design of probability-based Internet and mixed-mode panels, their applications in research and policy, and the potential and challenges ahead, specifically:
- Survey methodology and practice
- Data management and linkages
- Developments in analysis techniques
- Substantive applications of research
- Combination of data collected with wearable devices with self-reports
- Naturally occurring data
- Experiments
- Machine learning
- Surveys on Financial Literacy
Sponsorship
This conference has been made possible through funding from a grant partnership between the National Institute on Aging and the Social Security Administration, with additional financial contributions from the FINRA Investor Educational Foundation.