Using Life History Calendars to Survey Vulnerability

Morselli, Davide; Dasoki, Nora; Gabriel, Rainer; Gauthier, Jacques‐Antoine; Henke, Julia; Goff, Jean‐Marie Le

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-24157-9_8

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“…Respondents were also led to focus on vulnerabilities during the life-course: the diagram pointed to several life events that were labelled as factors of vulnerability. In sum, the diagram was a graphical representation of a fictitious life-calendar -inspired by the life history calendars used in life-course research (Morselli et al, 2016) -emphasising interconnectedness across events in four life domains and factors of vulnerability and thus suggesting the importance of properly considering all relevant pieces of information. Respondents were asked to answer three mandatory questions to ensure that they had paid attention to the experimental manipulation.…”

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Can street-level bureaucrats be nudged to increase effectiveness in welfare policy?

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Bonvin

Varone

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Policy &Amp; Politics

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This article investigates whether street-level bureaucrats can be incentivised to process information in ways that lead to more effective implementation decisions. It draws on the literatures on behavioural public policy (BPP) and street-level bureaucracy to analyse how civil servants implement disability insurance policy in Switzerland. We conducted a field experiment to assess whether a thought-provoking nudge improves the decisional effectiveness of street-level bureaucrats (SLBs). SLBs were assigned to either a ‘business-as-usual’ control condition, or to an experimental condition, where they were called to pay attention to vulnerability processes along the beneficiaries’ life course when making decisions. While we did not find that the thought-provoking nudge directly improved effectiveness, we found that it increased beneficiaries’ humanisation. In particular, there was some evidence for indirect positive effects of the thought-provoking nudge on effectiveness via humanisation. These findings encourage BPP researchers to consider additional dimensions such as humanisation to nudge SLBs into processing information in better ways.

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Section: Case Selection Procedures and Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

Can street-level bureaucrats be nudged to increase effectiveness in welfare policy?

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Bonvin

Varone

et al. 2021

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“…Yet, in this case, the biographical interviews are partially based on a life event calendar, a specific tool conceived to facilitate the retrospective recollection of important events using parallel and sequential retrieval techniques at the same time (Belli and Callegaro 2009;Morselli et al 2016). The chapter discusses the added value of the combined use of a life calendar and biographical in-depth interviews to examine the educational transitions of the children of Albanian-speaking migrants in Switzerland.…”

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Introduction: Situating Children of Migrants Across Borders and Origins

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2017

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“…Face-to-face (CAPI) interviews were conducted at respondents' homes by trained interviewers of a survey institute. The questionnaire included two main instruments: (1) a Life History Calendar (Morselli et al, 2016) to collect retrospective life course data in various life domains, such as family, work and residential location; and (2) the Family Network Method (Widmer, Aeby, & Sapin, 2013) for collecting information on the composition and structure of the respondents' personal networks. The Family Network Method belongs to instruments measuring cognitive networks.…”

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Analysing the Role of Social Visits on Migrants’ Social Capital: A Personal Network Approach

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There are concerns that migrants may be embedded in far-flung networks with support being less collective. The spatial dispersion of their relatives and friends would result in fragmented networks with lower solidarity and lower mutual trust than densely connected networks based on geographical proximity. This may be particularly true for migrants who rarely meet their relatives and friends face-to-face. Yet, it is unclear what role, if any, distant visits play in migrants' social capital. This article examines these issues using representative data from Switzerland and a combination of network and sequence analysis. Results show that migrants have more spatially dispersed networks, which, in turn, are associated with higher number of emotional support ties compared to respondents with spatially close networks, yet they are characterised by low cohesion and low trust. Distant visits only partly moderate the influence of spatial dispersion on social capital. People who frequently visit or host their far-flung relatives and friends have more transitive networks and fewer supportive ties than those who see them less often, but they do not have higher trust in them. Overall, distant visits have relatively little impact on social capital, suggesting a network effect that goes beyond dyadic relationships.

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Using Life History Calendars to Survey Vulnerability

Cited by 21 publications

References 33 publications

Can street-level bureaucrats be nudged to increase effectiveness in welfare policy?

Can street-level bureaucrats be nudged to increase effectiveness in welfare policy?

Introduction: Situating Children of Migrants Across Borders and Origins

Analysing the Role of Social Visits on Migrants’ Social Capital: A Personal Network Approach

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