CEEG Seminar Series: Effects on attrition of communicating with survey participants

On Wednesday 3 November 2021, Ricardo Santos, UNU-WIDER Research Fellow, presents a recent WIDER Working Paper (140/2021) on the effects on attrition of communicating with survey participants.

The event is part of the CEEG Seminar Series, organized under the Inclusive growth in Mozambique (IGM) programme. The seminars offer a forum to share and discuss ongoing research on topics related to the work of the IGM programme and to foster a culture of research at the faculty and at UEM in general.

The seminars take place at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Eduardo Mondlane (UEM). It is a public event open to everyone. The presentation will be given in Portuguese.

For those wishing to join online, this is possible via Zoom:
https://unu-edu.zoom.us/j/98734776502?pwd=ZW45UWFCQ1ErNUZuWmlMaFhKNUtGUT09
Meeting ID: 987 3477 6502
Passcode: 466408

About the study

The WIDER Working Paper (140/2021), entitled ‘Informed participation: the effects of information treatment on panel non-response', builds on a longitudinal school-to-work transition phone survey experiment to quantify the effects on attrition of communicating with participants. Specifically, it studies the impact of sending topically relevant information on job market conditions via SMS at the start of each survey round. The results affirm the best-practice recommendation to establish communication with participants between survey rounds to continue survey participation.