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Emptying the Tank : Getting the most out of Limited Data
Taylor, M. Scott - 2018
All empirical researchers know that having more sources of variation in a dataset is valuable. What is not known is how valuable, and if the marginal value of adding another source of variation diminishes or increases. This note provides explicit answers to these questions. It defines "valuable"...
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Education Research and Administrative Data
Figlio, David N. - 2015
Thanks to extraordinary and exponential improvements in data storage and computing capacities, it is now possible to collect, manage, and analyze data in magnitudes and in manners that would have been inconceivable just a short time ago. As the world has developed this remarkable capacity to...
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The Feasibility and Importance of Adding Measures of Actual Experience to Cross-Sectional Data Collection
Blau, Francine D. - 2011
We use Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics data and data from a 2008 telephone survey of adults conducted by Westat for the Princeton Data Improvement Initiative (PDII) to explore the importance and feasibility of adding retrospective questions about actual work experience to cross-sectional...
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Measuring Total Household Spending in a Monthly Internet Survey : Evidence from the American Life Panel
Hurd, Michael D. - 2012
Beginning in May 2009 we fielded a monthly Internet survey designed to measure total household spending as the aggregate of about 40 spending components. This paper reports on a number of outcomes from 30 waves of data collection. These outcomes include sample attrition, indicators of data...
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Understanding Rural Households' Time Use in a Developing Setting : Validating a Low-Cost Time Use Module
Field, Erica Marie; Pande, Rohini; Rigol, Natalia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Time use data facilitate deeper understanding of individual labor supply choices, especially for women, who are more likely to engage in unpaid care and home production. However, traditional time use data collection methods are time-consuming, expensive and susceptible to significant attrition....
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Privacy Protection and Accuracy : What Do We Know? Do We Know Things?? Let's Find Out!
Totty, Evan S.; Watson, Thor - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Statistical agencies have a dual mandate to provide accurate data and protect the privacy and confidentiality of data subjects. These mandates are fundamentally at odds and therefore must be balanced: more accurate data reduces privacy, while privacy protections introduce error that reduces...
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Potential Pitfalls for the Purchasing-Power-Parity Puzzle? Sampling and Specification Biases in Mean-Reversion Tests of the Law of One Price
Taylor, Alan M. - 2000
testing for PPP or LOOP, model specification and data sampling should not proceed without consideration of the actual …
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Tables of Sample Size For the F-Test in One Way Analysis of Variance Designs
Hill, Richard W. - 1975
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Taking the Cochrane-Piazzesi Term Structure Model Out of Sample : More Data, Additional Currencies, and FX Implications
Hodrick, Robert J. - 2018
We examine the Cochrane and Piazzesi (2005, 2008) model in several out-of-sample analyzes. The model's one-factor forecasting structure characterizes the term structures of additional currencies in samples ending in 2003. In post-2003 data one-factor structures again characterize each currency's...
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Non-Randomly Sampled Networks : Biases and Corrections
Hsieh, Chih-Sheng - 2018
first characterize the biases in both network statistics and estimates of network effects under non-random sampling …-classical measurement-error problems when applied as regressors. Apart from the sampling rate and the elicitation procedure, these biases … applied to network data collected via both designed and non-designed sampling procedures, does not require one to assume any …
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