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On the research value of large games : natural experiments in Norrath and Camelot

Castronova, Edward (contributor) - 2005

Games like EverQuest and Dark Age of Camelot occasionally produce natural experiments in social science: situations that, through no intent of the designer, offer controlled variations on a phenomenon of theoretical interest. This paper examines two examples, both of which involve the theory of...

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Performance rating and yardstick competition in social service provision : presented at TAPES Conference on Fiscal Federalism, May 2004

Revelli, Federico - 2004

This paper investigates whether national evaluation of decentralised government performance tends, by lessening local information spill-overs, to reduce the scope for local performance comparisons and consequently to lower the extent of spatial auto-correlation among local government...

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The information content of capacity utilisation rates for output gap estimates

Graff, Michael; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2010

From a theoretical perspective, the output gap is probably the most comprehensive and convincing concept to describe the cyclical position of an economy. Unfortunately, for practical purposes, the concept depends on the determination of potential output, which is an inherently unobservable...

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Vignette equivalence and response consistency : the case of job satisfaction

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M. S. van; … - 2011

We compare reported job satisfaction with vignette evaluations of hypothetical jobs by using a British, Greek and Dutch data set, containing 95 randomly assigned vignettes. In order to test comparability of international data sets recently the method of anchoring vignettes has been introduced by...

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Talk or text? : evaluating response rates by remote survey method during Covid-19

Amaral, Sofia; Dinarte-Diaz, Lelys; Domínguez, Patricio; … - 2022

Researchers and policy makers face significant challenges in selecting a method to conduct remote surveys, especially when collecting sensitive information or during turbulent life stages of hard-to-reach groups. In the context of the COVID-19 lockdown, we randomly selected about 600 adults in...

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Uncertainty and change : survey evidence of firms' subjective beliefs

Bachmann, Ruediger; Carstensen, Kai; Lautenbacher, Stefan; … - 2021

This paper studies how managers plan under uncertainty. In a new survey panel on German manufacturing firms, we show that uncertainty reflects change: Planning incorporates higher subjective uncertainty about future sales growth when the firm has just experienced unusual growth, and more so if...

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Using machine learning and qualitative interviews to design a five-question women's agency index

Jayachandran, Seema; Biradavolu, Monica R.; Cooper, Jan - 2021

measure agency for 209 women in Haryana, India, ﬁrst, through a semi-structured interview and, second, through a large set of … close-ended questions. We use qualitative coding methods to score each woman's agency based on the interview, which we treat … resulting ﬁve-question index is as strongly correlated with the coded qualitative interview as is an index that uses all of the …

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Wind of change? : experimental survey evidence on the COVID-19 shock and socio-political attitudes in Europe

Daniele, Gianmarco; Martinangeli, Andrea F. M.; … - 2020

This paper investigates whether the COVID-19 crisis has affected the way we think about (political) institutions, as well as our broader (policy) attitudes and values. We fielded large online survey experiments in Italy, Spain, Germany and the Netherlands, well into the first wave of the...

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The effect of dispatch methods on a recruiting campaign for a business survey : evidence from Germany

Brandt, Przemyslaw; Demmelhuber, Katrin; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2020

The ifo Institute for Economic Research has been conducting the ifo business survey since its foundation in 1949. To ensure stability of participation rates, regular sample recruitment is indispensable. Does the dispatch method matter for response rates of a recruiting campaign? To answer this...

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Incentives, search engines, and the elicitation of subjective beliefs : evidence from representative online survey experiments

Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina - 2019

A large literature studies subjective beliefs about economic facts using unincentivized survey questions. We devise randomized experiments in a representative online survey to investigate whether incentivizing belief accuracy affects stated beliefs about average earnings by professional degree...

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