Using a randomized survey experiment in urban Ghana, this paper demonstrates that the length of the reference period … markedly by job type. Survey participants report significantly more self-employment spells when the reference period is shorter …

paper contributes to the literature by presenting the results of an experiment aiming to identify the survey instrument that … multi-topic, firm-level survey does not provide an accurate picture of firm-level innovation and tends to overestimate …

A business plan competition is conducted to test whether survey instruments or panel judges are able to identify the … growth potential. A survey measure of ability correlates strongly with future growth, but the panel scores add to predictive … power even after controlling for ability and other survey variables. The survey questions have more power to explain the …

There is an inherent tension between traditional norms and survey protocols for quantitative data collected in the …

a randomized household survey experiment implemented in Malawi, this study finds that observationally equivalent as well … counterpart that, in a prior survey round, would have informed the prediction model for a proxy-based poverty measurement exercise …

This paper assesses the relationship between the length of recall and nonrandom error in agricultural survey data … survey data quality remains an important concern. Mainstreaming objective measures where possible and reducing the risk of …

behavior during a baseline survey for an adolescent girls program in Liberia. The study finds that girls are more likely to …

This research note investigates the impact of phone reminders on response rates in the context of a web-based survey in … an international organization, the World Bank. After randomly assigning treatment to 248 survey participants, the study … World Bank surveyors to turn to sample surveys more often, reducing survey overload in the institution …