Bibliometric Analysis of Social Desirability

Social desirability of earnings tests

In many countries pension systems involve some form of earnings test; i.e., an invidual’s benefits are reduced if he has labor income. This paper examines whether or not such earning tests emerge when pension system and income tax are optimally designed. We use a simple model with individuals differing both in productivity and their health status. The working life of an individual has two “endi...

Social Desirability of Free Entry: A Bilateral Oligopoly Analysis

A Children's Social Desirability Questionnaire.

A Children's Social Desirability (CSD) questionnaire was constructed and administered to 956 Ss in Grades 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, and 12. A direct question ("yes-no") form of the scale was presented to children in the 3rd, 4th, and Sth grades in individual testing sessions, and a true-false form was given older Ss in group sessions. For both forms of the questionnaire, split-half reliabilities and t...

Bibliometric Analysis of Social Capital Research during 1956 to 2008

The objective of this research primary describes the trend analysis of international periodicals and literatures which titles as well-known “Social Capital” at SSCI database from 1956 to 2008. The result of this paper inferred that the literature production on social capital has reached highly growth in the last 10 years. The distribution of author productivity does not follow by Lotka’s Law. T...

Social Desirability Bias in Measures of Partisanship

Scholars have long suggested that as a particular view or perspective becomes the social norm, we run the risk of overestimating the prevalence of this perspective due to social desirability bias. In this manuscript we address this possibility of this effect in one of the most fundamental measures in American politics: the measure of partisanship. In particular, we argue that social desirabilit...