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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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Price or variety? : an evaluation of mergers effects in grocery retailing

Argentesi, Elena; Buccirossi, Paolo; Cervone, Roberto; … - 2018

Assortment decisions are key strategic instruments for firms responding to local market conditions. We assess this claim by studying the effect of a national merger between two large Dutch supermarket chains on prices and on the depth as well as composition of assortment. We adopt a...

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Low homeownership in Germany : a quantitative exploration

Kaas, Leo; Kocharkov, Georgi; Preugschat, Edgar; … - 2017

The homeownership rate in Germany is one of the lowest among advanced economies. To better understand this fact, we analyze the role of three specific policies which discourage homeownership in Germany: an extensive social housing sector with broad eligibility criteria, high transfer taxes when...

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Demand for sexual services in Britain : does sex education matter?

Strøm, Steinar; Locatelli Biey, Marilena - 2017

We investigate the prevalence of factors associated with participation in the sex market among men resident in Britain using data from Britain's National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal-2, 199-2001,Natsal-3, 2010-2012). The percentage of men asking for paid sex is about 12 per...

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The effect of mergers on variety in grocery retailing

Argentesi, Elena; Buccirossi, Paolo; Cervone, Roberto; … - 2021

We study the effect of a merger between two Dutch supermarket chains to assess its effect on the depth as well as composition of assortment. We adopt a difference-in-differences strategy that exploits local variation in the merger's effects, controlling for selection on observables through a...

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Time variation in lifecycle consumption and income

Aksoy, Yunus; Basso, Henrique S.; St. Aubyn, Carolyn - 2020

We document systematic and significant time variation in US lifecycle non-durable consumption profiles. Consumption profiles have consistently become flatter: differences in consumption across generations have decreased. Pooling data across different periods to identify lifecycle profiles masks...

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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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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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