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Well-being Inequality and Reference Groups - An Agenda for New Research
Praag, Bernard M.S. Van - CESifo - 2010
It is argued that the concept of well –being inequality cannot be properly defined without taking the referencing … happiness inequality in happiness studies.We plead for an extension of the present happiness paradigm by setting up a new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008533999
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Inaccurate Age and Sex Data in the Census PUMS Files : Evidence and Implications
Alexander, J. Trent - 2011
We discover and document errors in public use microdata samples ("PUMS files") of the 2000 Census, the 2003-2006 American Community Survey, and the 2004-2009 Current Population Survey. For women and men ages 65 and older, age- and sex-specific population estimates generated from the PUMS files...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013133931
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Extended Yule-Walker Identification of VARMA Models with Single- or Mixed-Frequency Data
Zadrozny, Peter A. - 2016
Chen and Zadrozny (1998) developed the linear extended Yule-Walker (XYW) method for determining the parameters of a vector autoregressive (VAR) model with available covariances of mixed-frequency observations on the variables of the model. If the parameters are determined uniquely for available...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012989633
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Statistical Power of Within and Between-Subjects Designs in Economic Experiments
Bellemare, Charles - 2014
This paper discusses the choice of the number of participants for within-subjects (WS) designs and between-subjects (BS) designs based on simulations of statistical power allowing for different numbers of experimental periods. We illustrate the usefulness of the approach in the context of field...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043601
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Omnimetrics and Awards
Frey, Bruno S. - 2021
The digital revolution has led to a quantification of ever more areas of human life and society. At the same time, there is an explosion of the number of awards, which by their very nature are based on non-quantified performance. Will quantification take over completely, leading to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315443
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Reactivity in Economic Science
Frey, Bruno S. - 2017
There is a fundamental difference between the natural and the social sciences due to reactivity. This difference remains even in the age of Artificially Intelligent Learning Machines and Big Data. Many academic economists take it as a matter of course that economics should become a natural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012949113
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Testing the Waters : Behavior Across Participant Pools
Snowberg, Erik - 2018
We leverage a large-scale incentivized survey eliciting behaviors from (almost) an entire university student population, a representative sample of the U.S. population, and Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) to address concerns about the external validity of experiments with student participants....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912665
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Inaccurate Age and Sex Data in the Census PUMS Files: Evidence and Implications
Alexander, J. Trent; Davern, Michael; Stevenson, Betsey - CESifo - 2010
We discover and document errors in public use microdata samples ("PUMS files") of the 2000 Census, the 2003-2006 American Community Survey, and the 2004-2009 Current Population Survey. For women and men ages 65 and older, age- and sex-specific population estimates generated from the PUMS files...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008572501
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Statistical Power of Within and Between-Subjects Designs in Economic Experiments
Bellemare, Charles; Bissonnette, Luc; Kröger, Sabine - CESifo - 2014
This paper discusses the choice of the number of participants for within-subjects (WS) designs and between-subjects (BS) designs based on simulations of statistical power allowing for different numbers of experimental periods. We illustrate the usefulness of the approach in the context of field...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960644
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Does Size Matter? The Impact of Changes in Household Structure on Income Distribution in Germany
Peichl, Andreas - 2010
Income inequality in Germany has been continuously increasing during the past 20 years. In general, this is understood … as an increase in inequality of wages due to changes in bargaining power of employees. However, the role of changing … paper is to quantify the proportion of changing household structures in the increase in inequality. We find that the rise in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136651