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Testing the Importance of Search Frictions, Matching, and Reservation Prestige Through Randomized Experiments in Jordan

Groh, Matthew; McKenzie, David; Shammout, Nour; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

opportunity to even have an interview in 28 percent of cases, and when a job offer was received, rejected this offer or quickly …

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Which Schools and Pupils Respond to Educational Achievement Surveys? A Focus on the English PISA Sample

Schnepf, Sylke V.; Durrant, Gabriele B.; Micklewright, John - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Using logistic and multilevel logistic modelling we examine non-response at the school and pupil level to the important educational achievement survey Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) for England. The analysis exploits unusually rich auxiliary information on all schools and...

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Child Labor Variation by Type of Respondent: Evidence from a Large-Scale Study

Dammert, Ana C.; Galdo, Jose C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This study uses a nationally representative survey to analyze a key survey design decision in child labor measurement: self-reporting versus proxy interviewing. The child/proxy disagreement affects 20 percent of the sample, which translates into a 17.1 percentage point difference in the national...

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Experimental Tests of Survey Responses to Expenditure Questions

Comerford, David; Delaney, Liam; Harmon, Colm P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper tests for a number of survey effects in the elicitation of expenditure items. In particular we examine the extent to which individuals use features of the expenditure question to construct their answers. We test whether respondents interpret question wording as researchers intend and...

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Do Labor Statistics Depend on How and to Whom the Questions Are Asked? Results from a Survey Experiment in Tanzania

Bardasi, Elena; Beegle, Kathleen; Dillon, Andrew; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

for both men and women. Response by proxy rather than self-report yields lower male labor force participation, lower …

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Explaining Variation in Child Labor Statistics

Dillon, Andrew; Bardasi, Elena; Beegle, Kathleen; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Child labor statistics are critical for assessing the extent and nature of child labor activities in developing countries. In practice, widespread variation exists in how child labor is measured. Questionnaire modules vary across countries and within countries over time along several dimensions,...

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Survey Design and the Determinants of Subjective Wellbeing: An Experimental Analysis

Holford, Angus J.; Pudney, Stephen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

We analyse the results of experiments on questionnaire design and interview mode in the first four waves (2008-11) of … questions within the interview. We find significant evidence of an influence of interview mode and question design on the … distribution of reported satisfaction measures, particularly for women. Results from the sort of conditional modeling used to …

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Informing Migration Policies: A Data Primer

Carletto, Calogero; Larrison, Jennica; Ozden, Caglar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Researchers in many fields, such as demography, economics, and sociology, have established various data collection methodologies and principles to answer a range of academic and policy questions on migration. Although the progress has been impressive, some basic challenges remain. This paper...

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Empowering Women through Education and Influence: An Evaluation of the Indian Mahila Samakhya Program

Kandpal, Eeshani; Baylis, Kathy; Arends-Kuenning, Mary P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

primary data to disentangle the program's mechanisms, separately considering its effect on women who work, and those who do …-participants relative to women in untreated districts. …

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Selection and the Measured Black-White Wage Gap Among Young Women Revisited

Albrecht, James; van Vuuren, Aico; Vroman, Susan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

women in 1990 underestimated the true, selection-corrected gap, i.e., the gap we would have expected to see had all of these … women been employed in 1990. In this paper, we use the NLSY97 to update his analysis. The observed median log wage gap … considerable extent by changes in the distribution of educational attainment across young white and black women. …

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