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Introduction to the Special Issue on Consumer Protection
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This article introduces the Marketing Science Special Issue on Consumer Protection. This special issue and an accompanying conference were conceived as a partnership with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. We outline the potential areas and opportunities for academic scholarship in marketing to inform regulation on consumer protection. We group the areas of potential research and the papers in the special issue into three broad buckets: (1) what consumers need protection from, especially the need for regulations in new industries; (2) the impact of existing regulations; and (3) the distributional impact of regulations. The article concludes with a call for ongoing policy-relevant research on consumer protection.
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MPRC People
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Ginger Zhe Jin, Ph.D.
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Ginger Zhe Jin Publications
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Rashawn Ray featured in Vox on how black males vote in the presidential campaign
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Huge gender gap among black voters for Trump
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Katharine Abraham featured in The New York Times on Coronavirus Depression
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The U.S. government is trying to build, at great speed, a three-legged stool to prevent long-lasting economic depression from the Coronavirus outbreak
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Standard measures of Unemployment make U.S. labor market looks a bit too tight
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Katharine Abraham and John Haltiwanger examine U.S. labor market tightness by addressing the limitations of the standard measures
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Selected Research
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Katharine Abraham featured in The New York Times on Unemployment due to COVID-19 Outbreak
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Economists expect as many as a record 20 million job losses and an unemployment rate of around 15% in the April job report
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Katharine Abraham featured in Bloomberg on Job Saving after the COVID-19 Hit
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States' short-time compensation, or shared-work programs, are effective in helping retain trained staff members during COVID-19 outbreak
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Melissa Kearney analyzes COVID-19 Social Insurance on EconoFact
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Cash payments provide a financial lifeline through this time of income loss. Workers in the hardest-hit industries have low earnings and few savings.
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Melissa Kearney's research illuminates COVID recovery potential
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We must deliberately spend and invest in ways that will strengthen our capitalist economy and expand economic security, she writes
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MPRC Associates lead COVID-19 pilot study
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University of Maryland Seed Grant funds research into COVID-19 social impacts
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Coverage Error in Data Collection Combining Mobile Surveys With Passive Measurement Using Apps: Data From a German National Survey
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Researchers are combining self-reports from mobile surveys with passive data collection using sensors and apps on smartphones increasingly more often. While smartphones are commonly used in some groups of individuals, smartphone penetration is significantly lower in other groups. In addition, different operating systems (OSs) limit how mobile data can be collected passively. These limitations cause concern about coverage error in studies targeting the general population. Based on data from the Panel Study Labour Market and Social Security (PASS), an annual probability-based mixed-mode survey on the labor market and poverty in Germany, we find that smartphone ownership and ownership of smartphones with specific OSs are correlated with a number of sociodemographic and substantive variables.
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Frauke Kreuter, Ph.D.
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Frauke Kreuter Publications
