experiments within surveys, rather than just relying on observational survey data. We then outline the most commonly used …

welfare. An appropriately weighted survey-based distribution of an acceptable measure of economic welfare need not be less …

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 …

This paper illustrates the design and use of open-ended survey questions as a way of eliciting people's first …

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 …

. To understand if anonymized interviewing can allay this concern, we conduct a measurement experiment in rural Liberia and …

of bilateral exports, a panel of data from 2006 through 2017, and an annual Gallup survey which asks people in up to 157 …

We administer a newly-designed survey to a large panel of wealthy retail investors. The survey elicits beliefs that are … allocations. The sensitivity of portfolios to beliefs is small on average, but varies significantly with investor wealth … individual heterogeneity; demographic characteristics explain only a small part of why some individuals are optimistic and some …

collection, we develop and field a new monthly panel Survey of Business Uncertainty. The SBU began in 2014 and now covers about 1 …We elicit subjective probability distributions from business executives about their own-firm outcomes at a one …-year look-ahead horizon. In terms of question design, our key innovation is to let survey respondents freely select support …