Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/248354 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2021/140
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
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 nonresponse, with an estimate of instantaneous hazard reduction of around 30 per cent. These results affirm the best-practice recommendation to establish communication with participants between survey rounds to continue survey participation.
Subjects: 
survey participation
attrition
information
survival analysis
JEL: 
C41
C83
J20
J63
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9267-080-1
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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