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A pervasive concern with the use of self-reported health and disability measures in behavioral models is that they are biased and endogenous. A commonly suggested explanation is that survey respondents exaggerate the severity of health problems and incidence of disabilities in order to...
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') bias in the estimates and, after due account is taken of this bias, we find that differences due to estimation method are …
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This paper discusses the definition and identification of external treatment effects and experimental designs capable of detecting these effects. External effects occur when the outcome of a given individual is affected by the treatment assignments of other individuals. The paper argues that...
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When a rate of return is regressed on a lagged stochastic regressor, such as a dividend yield, the regression disturbance is correlated with the regressor's innovation. The OLS estimator's finite-sample properties, derived here, can depart substantially from the standard regression setting....
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some, but not all, of the approximation bias …
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reliance on intuitions. In none of the tasks are very high stakes sufficient to de-bias participants, or come even close to …
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This paper quantifies the amount of noise and bias in analysts' forecast of corporate earnings at various horizons. We … next decompose the relative accuracy of these forecasts into three components: (i) noise, (ii) bias and (iii) analysts … both noise and bias are increase linearly. We then show most existing models lack a mechanism to account for these facts …
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Platforms are growing increasingly powerful, raising questions about whether their power might be exercised with bias …. While bias is inherently difficult to measure, we identify a context within the music industry that is amenable to bias … suggest the possibility of platform biases in favor of major record labels, and industry participants also point to bias …
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the spot rate. We use the surveys to decompose the bias into a protion attributable to the risk premium and a portion … attributable to systematic prediction errors. The survey data suggest that our findings of both unconditional and conditional bias …
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Cross-sectional regression analyses of wage gaps may be biased by omission of unobserved worker characteristics. Recent studies therefore have used longitudinal data to "difference out" the effects of such variables. This paper. however. shows that self-selection of job changers may cause...
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