Bach, Ruben L.
Research Fellow (Data and Methods Unit)
Phone:
+49-621-181-2840
Postal Address
University of Mannheim
68131
Mannheim
DE
Visiting Address
University of Mannheim
A5, 6 Building A
Room: 245
68159
Mannheim
Projects collapse
Social Inequality
Social Data and Methods
Communication and Digitalization
Social Data and Methods
Publications expand
Buchkapitel
Zeitschriftenartikel
Bach, Ruben L.,
Henning Silber,
Frederic Gerdon,
Florian Keusch,
Matthias Schonlau,
Jette Schröder
(Forthcoming):
To share or not to share – understanding individuals’ willingness to share biomarkers, sensor data, and medical records.
Information, Communication & Society,
(publ. online before print).
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Wenz, Alexander,
Florian Keusch,
Ruben L. Bach
(Forthcoming):
Measuring smartphone use: Survey versus digital behavioral data.
Social Science Computer Review,
(publ. online before print).
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Bach, Ruben L.
(2024):
Book Review: Applied Statistical Learning—With Case Studies in Stata.
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, Statistics in Society,
187,
3,
854–855.
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Schwerdtfeger, Maike,
Ruben L. Bach
(2024):
How does broadband supply affect participation in panel surveys?: Using geospatial broadband data at the district level to analyze mode choice and panel attrition.
Quality & Quantity,
58,
6,
5805–5828.
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Bach, Ruben L.,
Carina Cornesse,
Jessica Daikeler
(2024):
Equipping the Offline Population with Internet Access in an Online Panel. Does It Make a Difference?.
Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology,
12,
1,
80–93.
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Kern, Christoph,
Ruben L. Bach,
Hannah Mautner,
Frauke Kreuter
(2024):
When Small Decisions Have Big Impact: Fairness Implications of Algorithmic Profiling Schemes.
ACM Journal of Responsible Computing,
1,
4,
(article no. 24), pp. 1-30.
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Szafran, Daria,
Ruben L. Bach
(2024):
“The Human Must Remain the Central Focus”: Subjective Fairness Perceptions in Automated Decision-Making.
Minds and Machines,
34,
(article no. 24) pp. 1-37.
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Keusch, Florian,
Paulina K. Pankowska,
Alexandru Cernat,
Ruben L. Bach
(2024):
Do You Have Two Minutes to Talk about Your Data? Willingness to Participate and Nonparticipation Bias in Facebook Data Donation.
Field Methods,
36,
4,
279-293.
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Keusch, Florian,
Ruben L. Bach,
Alexandru Cernat
(2023):
Reactivity in measuring sensitive online behavior.
Internet Research,
33,
3,
1031-1052.
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Bach, Ruben L.,
Christoph Kern,
Hannah Mautner,
Frauke Kreuter
(2023):
The impact of modeling decisions in statistical profiling.
Data & Policy,
5,
(article-no. e32), pp. 1-19.
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Müller, Philipp,
Ruben L. Bach
(2023):
Populist alternative news use and its role for elections: Web-tracking and survey evidence from two campaign periods.
New Media & Society,
25,
10,
2663–2683.
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Daikeler, Jessica,
Ruben L. Bach,
Stephanie Eckman,
Henning Silber
(2022):
Motivated Misreporting in Smartphone Surveys.
Social Science Computer Review,
40,
1,
95-107.
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Gerdon, Frederic,
Ruben L. Bach,
Christoph Kern,
Frauke Kreuter
(2022):
Social impacts of algorithmic decision-making: A research agenda for the social sciences.
Big Data & Society,
1-13 (e-only).
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Kuppler, Matthias,
Christoph Kern,
Ruben L. Bach,
Frauke Kreuter
(2022):
From fair predictions to just decisions? Conceptualizing algorithmic fairness and distributive justice in the context of data-driven decision-making.
Frontiers in Sociology ,
7,
(article no. 883999), pp. 1-18.
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Silber, Henning,
Frederic Gerdon,
Ruben L. Bach,
Christoph Kern,
Florian Keusch,
Frauke Kreuter
(2022):
A preregistered vignette experiment on determinants of health data sharing behavior: Willingness to donate sensor data, medical records, and biomarkers.
Politics and the Life Sciences,
41,
2,
161–181.
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Kern, Christoph,
Frederic Gerdon,
Ruben L. Bach,
Florian Keusch,
Frauke Kreuter
(2022):
Humans versus machines: Who is perceived to decide fairer? Experimental evidence on attitudes toward automated decision-making.
Patterns,
3,
10,
(article no. 100591) e-only.
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Bach, Ruben L.,
Christoph Kern,
Denis Bonnay,
Luc Kalaora
(2022):
Understanding political news media consumption with digital trace data and natural language processing.
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, Statistics in Society,
185,
S2,
S246-S269.
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Bach, Ruben L.,
Christoph Kern,
Ashley Amaya,
Florian Keusch,
Frauke Kreuter,
Jan Hecht,
Jonathan Heinemann
(2021):
Predicting voting behavior using digital trace data.
Social Science Computer Review,
39,
5,
862–883.
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Amaya, Ashley,
Ruben L. Bach,
Florian Keusch,
Frauke Kreuter
(2021):
New Data Sources in Social Science Research: Things to Know Before Working With Reddit Data.
Social Science Computer Review,
39,
4,
943-960.
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Gerdon, Frederic,
Helen Nissenbaum,
Ruben L. Bach,
Frauke Kreuter,
Stefan Zins
(2021):
Individual Acceptance of Using Health Data for Private and Public Benefit: Changes During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Harvard Data Science Review,
Special issue "COVID-19: Unprecedented Challenges and Chances",
1,
1-24 (e-only).
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Altmann, Samuel,
Luke Milsom,
Hannah Zillessen,
Raffaele Blasone,
Frederic Gerdon,
Ruben L. Bach,
Frauke Kreuter,
Daniele Nosenzo,
Séverine Toussaert,
Johannes Abeler
(2020):
Acceptability of App-Based Contact Tracing for COVID-19: Cross-Country Survey Study.
JMIR MHealth and UHealth,
8,
8,
(article no. e19857).
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Bach, Ruben L.,
Stephanie Eckman
(2020):
Rotation Group Bias in Reporting of Household Purchases in the U.S. Consumer Expenditure Survey.
Economics Letters,
187,
February 2020,
(article no. 108889).
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Bach, Ruben L.,
Stephanie Eckman,
Jessica Daikeler
(2020):
Misreporting Among Reluctant Respondents.
Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology,
8,
3,
566–588.
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Bach, Ruben L.,
Alexander Wenz
(2020):
Studying health-related internet and mobile device use using web logs and smartphone records.
PLOS ONE,
15,
6,
(article no. e0234663).
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Presentation
Bernauer, Julian,
João Areal,
Ruben L. Bach
(2025):
Measuring Populism From Party Manifestos With Multilingual Context-Sensitive BERT.
[Annual Congress of the Swiss Political Science Association (SVPW), Geneva, ].
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Gerdon, Frederic,
Ruben L. Bach,
Christoph Kern,
Frauke Kreuter
(2024):
Research Avenues for Studying Effects of Algorithmic Decision-Making Systems on Social Inequality.
[Digital Inequalities Symposium for Early-Career Researchers, Paris, ].
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Rodewald, Frieder,
Florian Keusch,
Daria Szafran,
Ruben L. Bach
(2024):
Measuring Privacy Behavior with Donated Data.
[Data Donation Symposium 2024, Amsterdam, ].
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Wenz, Alexander,
Florian Keusch,
Ruben L. Bach
(2023):
Assessing the quality of digital behavioral data for measuring smartphone use.
[4th MASS Workshop, Manchester, UK, ].
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Kern, Christoph,
Frederic Gerdon,
Ruben L. Bach,
Florian Keusch,
Frauke Kreuter
(2023):
Humans vs. Machines: Who is Perceived to Decide Fairer? An Experiment about Citizens’ Attitudes.
[The 2nd International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence, Munich, ].
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Keusch, Florian,
Paulina Pankowska,
Ruben L. Bach,
Alexandru Cernat
(2023):
Collect Information about Facebook Usage via Data Donation: Willingness, Participation, and Bias.
[Data Donation Symposium, Zurich, ].
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Gerdon, Frederic,
Daria Szafran,
Jakob Kappenberger,
Ruben L. Bach,
Christoph Kern
(2023):
Using survey experiments and agent-based modeling to simulate mobility behavior in smart cities.
[10th Conference of the European Survey Research Association, Milan, ].
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Keusch, Florian,
Paulina Pankowska,
Ruben L. Bach,
Alexandru Cernat
(2023):
Do You Have Two Minutes to Talk about Your Data? Using Data Donation to Collect Facebook Data.
[AAPOR 78th Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, ].
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Cernat, Alexandru,
Florian Keusch,
Ruben L. Bach,
Paulina Pankowska
(2023):
Estimating measurement quality in digital trace data and surveys using the MultiTrait MultiMethod model.
[10th Conference of the European Survey Research Association, Milan, ].
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Bach, Ruben L.,
Henning Silber,
Matthias Schonlau,
Jette Schröder,
Frederic Gerdon,
Florian Keusch
(2023):
To share or not to share – Using open-ended survey questions to understand data sharing decisions.
[10th Conference of the European Survey Research Association, Milan, ].
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Pankowska, Paulina,
Florian Keusch,
Ruben L. Bach,
Alexandru Cernat
(2023):
Measuring Facebook Use: The Accuracy of Self-Reported Data vs. Digital Trace Data.
[General Online Research 2023, Kassel, ].
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Keusch, Florian,
Paulina Pankowska,
Ruben L. Bach,
Alexandru Cernat
(2022):
Measuring Facebook use: The accuracy of self-reported data versus digital trace data.
[Joint Statistical Meetings 2022, Washington, DC, ].
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Silber, Henning,
Frederic Gerdon,
Ruben L. Bach,
Christoph Kern,
Florian Keusch,
Frauke Kreuter
(2022):
In which situations are people likely to share their health data? A vignette experiment on willingness to donate three different types of health data.
[Frühjahrstagung der Sektion Methoden der empirischen Sozialforschung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS), (virtual conference), ].
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Gerdon, Frederic,
Helen Nissenbaum,
Ruben L. Bach,
Frauke Kreuter,
Stefan Zins
(2021):
Privacy Attitudes in Times of Crisis: Acceptance of Data Sharing for Public Health.
[AAPOR 76th Annual Conference, (virtual conference), ].
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Silber, Henning,
Frederic Gerdon,
Ruben L. Bach,
Christoph Kern,
Florian Keusch,
Frauke Kreuter
(2021):
A vignette experiment on determinants of health data sharing behavior: Willingness to donate sensor data, medical records, and biomarkers.
[Science and Politics: Changing Attitudes and Emerging Methodologies, (virtual workshop), ].
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Gerdon, Frederic,
Helen Nissenbaum,
Ruben L. Bach,
Frauke Kreuter,
Stefan Zins
(2021):
Pandemic Effects on Privacy Attitudes: Changes in Acceptance of Using Health Data for Private and Public Benefit.
[3rd Annual Symposium on Applications of Contextual Integrity, (virtual conference), ].
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Gerdon, Frederic,
Helen Nissenbaum,
Ruben L. Bach,
Frauke Kreuter,
Stefan Zins
(2021):
Privacy Attitudes in Times of Crisis: Acceptance of Data Sharing for Public Health?.
[Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), (virtual conference), ].
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Gerdon, Frederic,
Christoph Kilian Theil,
Christoph Kern,
Ruben L. Bach,
Frauke Kreuter,
Heiner Stuckenschmidt,
Kai Eckert
(2020):
Exploring Impacts of Artificial Intelligence on Urban Societies with Social Simulations.
[40. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, (virtual conference), ].
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Keusch, Florian,
Ruben L. Bach,
Alexandru Cernat
(2020):
Social desirability in digital trace data collection.
[BigSurv20, (virtual conference), ].
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Keusch, Florian,
Georg-Christoph Haas,
Ruben L. Bach,
Frauke Kreuter
(2019):
Social desirability in passive mobile data collection.
[8th Conference of the European Survey Research Association, Zagreb, ].
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Bericht
Wenz, Alexander,
Florian Keusch,
Ruben L. Bach
(2023):
Assessing the quality of digital behavioral data for measuring smartphone use.
39.
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Kuppler, Matthias,
Christoph Kern,
Ruben L. Bach,
Frauke Kreuter
(2021):
Distributive Justice and Fairness Metrics in Automated Decision-making: How Much Overlap Is There?.
22.
Ithaca, NY,
Cornell University.
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Kern, Christoph,
Ruben L. Bach,
Hannah Mautner,
Frauke Kreuter
(2021):
Fairness in Algorithmic Profiling: A German Case Study.
33.
Ithaca, NY,
Cornell University.
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