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Does Quitting Smoking Increase Obesity? Evidence From Accounting for Misreporting
Tchernis, Rusty; Teltser, Keith F.; Teotia, Arjun - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Smoking and obesity are the two leading causes of preventable deaths in the United States. Because smoking is subject to heavy government intervention, understanding the effect of smoking on obesity is important in determining the extent of unintended costs or benefits of such intervention. The...
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Estimating the Impacts of Program Benefits : Using Instrumental Variables with Underreported and Imputed Data
Stephens, Melvin, Jr - 2015
Survey non-response has risen in recent years which has increased the share of imputed and underreported values found on commonly used datasets. While this trend has been well-documented for earnings, the growth in non-response to government transfers questions has received far less attention....
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Bias from Classical and Other Forms of Measurement Error
Hyslop, Dean R. - 2000
ignorance they may interpret the question what is the value of this variable?' as what is your best estimate of this variable …?', and provide optimal predictions of the variable of interest given their information set. In contrast to the classical …, correlated with the true value of the variable. In the context of the linear regression framework, we show that measurement error …
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Estimating Returns to Schooling When Schooling is Misreported
Kane, Thomas J. - 1999
We propose a general method of moments technique to identify measurement error in self-reported and transcript-reported schooling using differences in wages, test scores, and other covariates to discern the relative verity of each measure. We also explore the implications of such reporting...
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Understanding Algorithmic Discrimination in Health Economics Through the Lens of Measurement Errors
Basu, Anirban; Hammarlund, Noah; Khor, Sara; Bansal, Aasthaa - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
-mitigating strategies, such constraints may increase algorithmic discrimination when there is measurement error in the dependent variable …
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What Leads to Measurement Errors? Evidence from Reports of Program Participation in Three Surveys
Celhay, Pablo A.; Meyer, Bruce D.; Mittag, Nikolas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
correct for systematic errors, such as instrumental variable approaches. Understanding survey errors allows survey producers …
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Errors of Measurement in Output Deflators
Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 1986
In this paper we investigate the incidence of measurement errors in two independent estimates of long-term price change, within the framework of "multiple indicators" models of price measurement. We develop estimates of the measurement-error variances associated with both the Producer Price...
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Seasonal Adjustment with Measurement Error Present
Hausman, Jerry A. - 1983
Seasonal adjustment procedures attempt to estimate the sample realizations of an unobservable economic time series in the presence of both seasonal factors and irregular factors. In this paper we consider a factor which has not been considered explicitly in previous treatments of seasonal...
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Motivated Errors
Exley, Christine L. - 2019
In three sets of experiments involving over 4,200 subjects, we show that agents motivated to be selfish make systematic decision errors of the kind generally attributed to cognitive limitations or behavioral biases. We show that these decision errors are eliminated (or dramatically reduced) when...
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Measurement Errors in Investment Equations
Almeida, Heitor - 2010
We use Monte Carlo simulations and real data to assess the performance of alternative methods that deal with measurement error in investment equations. Our experiments show that individual-fixed effects, error heteroscedasticity, and data skewness severely affect the performance and reliability...
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