Jason Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 4414451 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jason Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jason |
| FAMILY NAME | Jones |
| SIGNATURE | JONES J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Victoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4140-0268 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
“It’s Hard to Put a Wheelchair in a Boat: ” A Qualitative Study of Climate Change Threat Perceptions Among Disabled People and Caregivers
Disabled people and caregivers face distinct risks in a changing climate, yet their voices remain underrepresented in climate discourse and emergency preparedness. This qualitative study explores how disabled people and caregivers perceive climate change threats through the lens of Protection Motivation Theory. Eight focus groups (N = 58) revealed that participants view climate change as a personal, immediate, and life-threatening issue. They exp…
Identity diversification and homogenization: Evidence From Frequent Estimates of Similarity of Self-Authored, Self-Descriptive Text
Bursts of contemporaneous publication among high- and low-credibility online information providers
In studies of misinformation, the distinction between high- and low-credibility publishers is fundamental. However, there is much that we do not know about the relationship between the subject matter and timing of content produced by the two types of publishers. By analyzing the content of several million unique articles published over 28 months, we show that high- and low-credibility publishers operate in distinct news ecosystems. Bursts of news…
Progress in climate change adaptation in the Arctic
Climate adaptation is a priority for Arctic regions which are witnessing some of the most rapid warming globally. Studies have documented examples of adaptation responses in the Arctic, but assessments evaluating if and how progress is being made over time remain scarce. We identify and examine adaptation progress in the Arctic using a systematic tracking methodology to compare adaptations documented during 2014–19 to those documented for the per…
Stereotypical Gender Associations in Language Have Decreased Over Time
Using a corpus of millions of digitized books, we document the presence and trajectory over time of stereotypical gender associations in the written English language from 1800 to 2000. We employ the novel methodology of word embeddings to quantify male gender bias: the tendency to associate a domain with the male gender. We measure male gender bias in four stereotypically gendered domains: career, family, science, and arts. We found that stereoty…
Social network effects on academic achievement
How peer groups contribute to educational outcomes has long interested researchers. However, the possibility that peer groups dominated by either low- or high-achieving youth can have substantively different effects on achievement has been largely ignored. In this paper, we show that while being embedded in a high-achieving network of friends is not associated with increased own achievement, being embedded in a low-achieving network is associated…
Social Endorsement Cues and Political Participation
Which individuals are most responsive to get-out-the-vote (GOTV) messages that emphasize the social aspects of voting? Recent literature has shown that GOTV messages that emphasize the social environment in which an individual is embedded are particularly effective at increasing voting rates. Until now, we have not had good estimates for the types of people for whom social GOTV messages are most effective. We report a new set of disaggregated res…
From Posting to Voting: The Effects of Political Competition on Online Political Engagement
How does living in a battleground state during a presidential election affect an individual’s political engagement? We utilize a unique collection of 113 million Facebook status updates to compare users’ political discussion during the 2008 election. “Battleground” state users are significantly more likely to discuss politics in the campaign season than are users in uncompetitive “blackout” states. Posting a political status update—a form ofday-t…
Climate Change and Food Security
The dual forces of population growth and climate change will exacerbate pressures on land use, water access, and food security
Quantifying Political Discussion from the Universe of Facebook Status Updates
A 61-million-person experiment in social influence and political mobilization
Gay affirmative therapy for the straight clinician: The essential guide
It is 2009. Never have people been so sophisticated about the lives of lesbian and gay individuals. The field of psychotherapy has increasing understanding of the universal and unique experiences o
Competition within a Cartel: League Conduct and Team Conduct in the Market for Baseball Player Services
A model of major league baseball is developed which distinguishes between league behavior and individual team behavior. The league is viewed as setting rules that restrict the team's willingness to pay and/or impose costs on the transfer of players between teams. Given these rules, teams then compete for player services. The model is estimated and tested. The evidence suggests that the restrictive effect of league rules on player salaries decline…
From the Arena Into the Streets: Hockey Violence, Economic Incentives and Public Policy
The hypothesis that there is a positive relationship betweenviolenceand gameattendancein the NationalHockeyLeague is tested; and the implications of the results for policies aimed at rectifying the violence considered. The empirical analysis, which is based principally on game by game data for the 1989/90 season, confirms the positive relationship, although it occurs mainly in American, not Canadian, cities. Since there is an incentive forteamsto…
Blood Sports and Cherry Pie: Some Economics of Violence in the National Hockey League
The results are reported of empirically testing two hypotheses relating to violence in a professional team sport: one, that hockey fans have a taste for violence (bockey is a "blood sport") so that, in general, game attendance and violence in the National Hockey League are positively related; and two, more specifically, that the more extreme degrees of violence are positively associated with American, not Canadian, attendance. The data are game b…
Salary Determination in the National Hockey League: The Effects of Skills, Franchise Characteristics, and Discrimination
This paper empirically examines the extent to which skill differences, monopoly and monopsony conditions, and discrimination determine salaries (by player position) in the National Hockey League. The data set is for 1977-78 and covers more than 300 hockey players from all teams in the league. The major conclusions are that skills are the principal determinant of salaries at all positions; the monopoly characteristics of the franchise system appea…
Sport, Culture and the Modern StateHart Cantelon and Richard Gruneau Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1982, pp. xv, 315
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Dynamic Change and Accountability in a Canadian Market Economy
The bureaucracy and public policy: Canadian merger policy and the Combines Branch, 1960–71
This paper investigates the implications for public policy in general and merger sections of the Combines Act in particular of the hypothesis that bureaus, when carrying out their administrative duties, attempt to maximize their private utility functions rather than the social utility function expressed in the legislation. The analytical procedure, given alternative utility goals of power, prestige, convenience, and security and the appropriate c…
Social Endorsement Cues and Political Participation
Which individuals are most responsive to get-out-the-vote (GOTV) messages that emphasize the social aspects of voting? Recent literature has shown that GOTV messages that emphasize the social environment in which an individual is embedded are particularly effective at increasing voting rates. Until now, we have not had good estimates for the types of people for whom social GOTV messages are most effective. We report a new set of disaggregated res…
From Posting to Voting: The Effects of Political Competition on Online Political Engagement
How does living in a battleground state during a presidential election affect an individual’s political engagement? We utilize a unique collection of 113 million Facebook status updates to compare users’ political discussion during the 2008 election. “Battleground” state users are significantly more likely to discuss politics in the campaign season than are users in uncompetitive “blackout” states. Posting a political status update—a form ofday-t…
Stereotypical Gender Associations in Language Have Decreased Over Time
Using a corpus of millions of digitized books, we document the presence and trajectory over time of stereotypical gender associations in the written English language from 1800 to 2000. We employ the novel methodology of word embeddings to quantify male gender bias: the tendency to associate a domain with the male gender. We measure male gender bias in four stereotypically gendered domains: career, family, science, and arts. We found that stereoty…
Salary Determination in the National Hockey League: The Effects of Skills, Franchise Characteristics, and Discrimination
This paper empirically examines the extent to which skill differences, monopoly and monopsony conditions, and discrimination determine salaries (by player position) in the National Hockey League. The data set is for 1977-78 and covers more than 300 hockey players from all teams in the league. The major conclusions are that skills are the principal determinant of salaries at all positions; the monopoly characteristics of the franchise system appea…
Social network effects on academic achievement
How peer groups contribute to educational outcomes has long interested researchers. However, the possibility that peer groups dominated by either low- or high-achieving youth can have substantively different effects on achievement has been largely ignored. In this paper, we show that while being embedded in a high-achieving network of friends is not associated with increased own achievement, being embedded in a low-achieving network is associated…
From the Arena Into the Streets: Hockey Violence, Economic Incentives and Public Policy
The hypothesis that there is a positive relationship betweenviolenceand gameattendancein the NationalHockeyLeague is tested; and the implications of the results for policies aimed at rectifying the violence considered. The empirical analysis, which is based principally on game by game data for the 1989/90 season, confirms the positive relationship, although it occurs mainly in American, not Canadian, cities. Since there is an incentive forteamsto…
Blood Sports and Cherry Pie: Some Economics of Violence in the National Hockey League
The results are reported of empirically testing two hypotheses relating to violence in a professional team sport: one, that hockey fans have a taste for violence (bockey is a "blood sport") so that, in general, game attendance and violence in the National Hockey League are positively related; and two, more specifically, that the more extreme degrees of violence are positively associated with American, not Canadian, attendance. The data are game b…
Bursts of contemporaneous publication among high- and low-credibility online information providers
In studies of misinformation, the distinction between high- and low-credibility publishers is fundamental. However, there is much that we do not know about the relationship between the subject matter and timing of content produced by the two types of publishers. By analyzing the content of several million unique articles published over 28 months, we show that high- and low-credibility publishers operate in distinct news ecosystems. Bursts of news…
The bureaucracy and public policy: Canadian merger policy and the Combines Branch, 1960–71
This paper investigates the implications for public policy in general and merger sections of the Combines Act in particular of the hypothesis that bureaus, when carrying out their administrative duties, attempt to maximize their private utility functions rather than the social utility function expressed in the legislation. The analytical procedure, given alternative utility goals of power, prestige, convenience, and security and the appropriate c…
Dynamic Change and Accountability in a Canadian Market Economy
Sport, Culture and the Modern StateHart Cantelon and Richard Gruneau Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1982, pp. xv, 315
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Salary Determination in the National Hockey League: The Effects of Skills, Franchise Characteristics, and Discrimination
This paper empirically examines the extent to which skill differences, monopoly and monopsony conditions, and discrimination determine salaries (by player position) in the National Hockey League. The data set is for 1977-78 and covers more than 300 hockey players from all teams in the league. The major conclusions are that skills are the principal determinant of salaries at all positions; the monopoly characteristics of the franchise system appea…
Blood Sports and Cherry Pie: Some Economics of Violence in the National Hockey League
The results are reported of empirically testing two hypotheses relating to violence in a professional team sport: one, that hockey fans have a taste for violence (bockey is a "blood sport") so that, in general, game attendance and violence in the National Hockey League are positively related; and two, more specifically, that the more extreme degrees of violence are positively associated with American, not Canadian, attendance. The data are game b…
From the Arena Into the Streets: Hockey Violence, Economic Incentives and Public Policy
The hypothesis that there is a positive relationship betweenviolenceand gameattendancein the NationalHockeyLeague is tested; and the implications of the results for policies aimed at rectifying the violence considered. The empirical analysis, which is based principally on game by game data for the 1989/90 season, confirms the positive relationship, although it occurs mainly in American, not Canadian, cities. Since there is an incentive forteamsto…
Competition within a Cartel: League Conduct and Team Conduct in the Market for Baseball Player Services
A model of major league baseball is developed which distinguishes between league behavior and individual team behavior. The league is viewed as setting rules that restrict the team's willingness to pay and/or impose costs on the transfer of players between teams. Given these rules, teams then compete for player services. The model is estimated and tested. The evidence suggests that the restrictive effect of league rules on player salaries decline…
Gay affirmative therapy for the straight clinician: The essential guide
It is 2009. Never have people been so sophisticated about the lives of lesbian and gay individuals. The field of psychotherapy has increasing understanding of the universal and unique experiences o
A 61-million-person experiment in social influence and political mobilization
Climate Change and Food Security
The dual forces of population growth and climate change will exacerbate pressures on land use, water access, and food security
Quantifying Political Discussion from the Universe of Facebook Status Updates
From Posting to Voting: The Effects of Political Competition on Online Political Engagement
How does living in a battleground state during a presidential election affect an individual’s political engagement? We utilize a unique collection of 113 million Facebook status updates to compare users’ political discussion during the 2008 election. “Battleground” state users are significantly more likely to discuss politics in the campaign season than are users in uncompetitive “blackout” states. Posting a political status update—a form ofday-t…
Social network effects on academic achievement
How peer groups contribute to educational outcomes has long interested researchers. However, the possibility that peer groups dominated by either low- or high-achieving youth can have substantively different effects on achievement has been largely ignored. In this paper, we show that while being embedded in a high-achieving network of friends is not associated with increased own achievement, being embedded in a low-achieving network is associated…
Social Endorsement Cues and Political Participation
Which individuals are most responsive to get-out-the-vote (GOTV) messages that emphasize the social aspects of voting? Recent literature has shown that GOTV messages that emphasize the social environment in which an individual is embedded are particularly effective at increasing voting rates. Until now, we have not had good estimates for the types of people for whom social GOTV messages are most effective. We report a new set of disaggregated res…
Stereotypical Gender Associations in Language Have Decreased Over Time
Using a corpus of millions of digitized books, we document the presence and trajectory over time of stereotypical gender associations in the written English language from 1800 to 2000. We employ the novel methodology of word embeddings to quantify male gender bias: the tendency to associate a domain with the male gender. We measure male gender bias in four stereotypically gendered domains: career, family, science, and arts. We found that stereoty…
Progress in climate change adaptation in the Arctic
Climate adaptation is a priority for Arctic regions which are witnessing some of the most rapid warming globally. Studies have documented examples of adaptation responses in the Arctic, but assessments evaluating if and how progress is being made over time remain scarce. We identify and examine adaptation progress in the Arctic using a systematic tracking methodology to compare adaptations documented during 2014–19 to those documented for the per…
Bursts of contemporaneous publication among high- and low-credibility online information providers
In studies of misinformation, the distinction between high- and low-credibility publishers is fundamental. However, there is much that we do not know about the relationship between the subject matter and timing of content produced by the two types of publishers. By analyzing the content of several million unique articles published over 28 months, we show that high- and low-credibility publishers operate in distinct news ecosystems. Bursts of news…
Identity diversification and homogenization: Evidence From Frequent Estimates of Similarity of Self-Authored, Self-Descriptive Text
“It’s Hard to Put a Wheelchair in a Boat: ” A Qualitative Study of Climate Change Threat Perceptions Among Disabled People and Caregivers
Disabled people and caregivers face distinct risks in a changing climate, yet their voices remain underrepresented in climate discourse and emergency preparedness. This qualitative study explores how disabled people and caregivers perceive climate change threats through the lens of Protection Motivation Theory. Eight focus groups (N = 58) revealed that participants view climate change as a personal, immediate, and life-threatening issue. They exp…
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