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Supervisors occupy central roles in production and performance monitoring. We study how heterogeneity in performance evaluations across supervisors affects employee and supervisor careers and firm outcomes using data on the performance system of a Scandinavian service sector firm. We show that...
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This paper investigates employee performance appraisals using data from a single US firm between 2001 and 2007. We find that performance appraisals are both informative and drive important components of the employment contract. We find that employee appraisal scores vary considerably both...
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experiments within surveys, rather than just relying on observational survey data. We then outline the most commonly used …
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welfare. An appropriately weighted survey-based distribution of an acceptable measure of economic welfare need not be less …
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Measurement errors are often a large source of bias in survey data. Lack of knowledge of the determinants of such … respondent's degree of cooperation with the survey overall. We provide evidence on how survey design choices affect reporting … errors. Our findings help survey users to gauge the reliability of their data and to devise estimation strategies that can …
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This paper illustrates the design and use of open-ended survey questions as a way of eliciting people's first …
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We evaluate how nonresponse affects conclusions drawn from survey data and consider how researchers can reliably test … and correct for nonresponse bias. To do so, we examine a survey on labor market conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic … that used randomly assigned financial incentives to encourage participation. We link the survey data to administrative data …
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Women may under-report intimate partner violence (IPV) in surveys due to a variety of social and psychological factors. To understand if anonymized interviewing can allay this concern, we conduct a measurement experiment in rural Liberia and Malawi in which women were asked IPV questions via...
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of bilateral exports, a panel of data from 2006 through 2017, and an annual Gallup survey which asks people in up to 157 …
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