Search Results - subject:"measurement error"

Measuring honesty and explaining adulteration in naturally occurring markets

Rustagi, Devesh; Kroell, Markus - 2022

There is astounding variation in product quality sold in markets even when quality is difficult to ascertain and rules are poorly enforced. We investigate whether sellers differ in innate honesty (incur private cost to provide good quality) and whether this explains the variation in quality. Our...

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Can the risky investment game predict real world investments?

Holden, Stein Terje; Tilahun, Mesfin - 2022

our sample. There are two reasons for this. First, we find substantial measurement error and low correlation when the game … is repeated one year later for the same subjects. Measurement error is so large in our sample that the "obviously related … detect attenuation bias due to measurement error. Subjects'cognitive memory of the game played one year earlier is strongly …

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Later one knows better: the over-reporting of short-time work in firm surveys

Kagerl, Christian; Schierholz, Malte; Fitzenberger, Bernd - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 56 (2022) 1, pp. 1-19

Short-time work (STW) in Germany allows for a lot of flexibility in actual usage. Ex ante, firms notify the Employment Agency about the total number of employees eligible, and, up to the total granted, firms can flexibly choose how many employees actually use STW. In firm-level surveys, which...

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Later one knows better: The over-reporting of short-time work in firm surveys

Kagerl, Christian; Schierholz, Malte; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2022

Short-time work (STW) in Germany allows for a lot of flexibility in actual usage. Ex ante, firms notify the Federal Employment Agency about the total number of employees eligible, and, up to the total granted, firms can flexibly choose how many employees actually use STW. In firm-level surveys,...

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Exit, Voice and Political Change: Evidence from Swedish Mass Migration to the United States. A Comment on Karadja and Prawitz (Journal of Political Economy, 2019)

Pettersson-Lidbom, Per - In: Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics (JCRE) 1 (2022) 2022-3, pp. 1-13

In this comment, I revisit a question raised in Karadja and Prawitz (2019) concerning a causal relationship between mass emigration and long-run political outcomes. I find that their results are not robust to (i) selection of the appropriate control variables, (ii) using valid cluster-robust...

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A Model of Errors in BMI Based on Self-Reported and Measured Anthropometrics with Evidence from Brazilian Data

Davillas, Apostolos; de Oliveira, Victor Hugo; Jones, … - 2022

measurement error in both self-reported and measured anthropometrics with national representative data from the 2013 National …'s reporting behaviour, only between 10% and 24% of our self-reported anthropometrics are free from any measurement error. Post …

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Income source confusion using the SILC

Bollinger, Christopher R.; Tasseva, Iva V. - 2022

We use a unique panel of household survey data - the Austrian version of the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (SILC) for 2008-2011 - which have been linked to individual administrative records on both state unemployment benefits and earnings. We assess the extent and...

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Accuracy of self-reported private health insurance coverage

Nguyen, Ha Trong; Le, Huong Thu; Connelly, Luke; … - 2022

Studies on health insurance coverage often rely on measures self-reported by respondents, but the accuracy of such measures has not been thoroughly validated. This paper is the first to use linked Australian National Health Survey and administrative population tax data to explore the accuracy of...

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Model of Errors in BMI Based on Self‐reported and Measured Anthropometrics with Evidence from Brazilian Data

Davillas, Apostolos; de Oliveira, Victor Hugo; Jones, … - 2022

measurement error in both self‐reported and measured anthropometrics with national representative data from the 2013 National …'s reporting behaviour, only between 10% and 24% of our self‐reported anthropometrics are free from any measurement error …

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Identification of unobservables in observations

Hu, Yingyao - 2022

In empirical studies, the data usually don't include all the variables of interest in an economic model. This paper shows the identification of unobserved variables in observations at the population level. When the observables are distinct in each observation, there exists a function mapping...

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