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Limited self-knowledge and survey response behavior
Falk, Armin; Neuber, Thomas; Strack, Philippe - 2021
her individual characteristics. In panel data, the model predicts that the variance in responses for different … characteristics. The data confirm the model’s predictions as well as the estimator’s validity. Finally, we turn to a large panel data …
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Self-assessment : the role of the social environment
Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; … - 2020
This study presents descriptive and causal evidence on the role of the social environment in shaping the accuracy of self-assessment. We introduce a novel incentivized measurement tool to measure the accuracy of self-assessment among children and use this tool to show that children from high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012219381
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How do judgmental overconfidence and overoptimism shape innovative activity?
Herz, Holger; Schunk, Daniel; Zehnder, Christian - 2013
Recent field evidence suggests a positive link between overconfidence and innovative activities. In this paper we argue that the connection between overconfidence and innovation is more complex than the previous literature suggests. In particular, we show theoretically and experimentally that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009691669
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Trust the police? : self-selection of motivated agents into the German police force
Friebel, Guido; Kosfeld, Michael; Thielmann, Gerd - 2016
We conduct experimental games with police applicants in Germany to investigate whether intrinsically motivated agents self-select into public service. Our focus is on trustworthiness and the willingness to enforce norms as key dimensions of intrinsic motivation in the police context. We find...
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Facing yourself : a note on self-image
Falk, Armin - 2017
Numerous signaling models in economics assume image concerns. These take two forms, as relating either to social image or self-image. While empirical work has identified the behavioral importance of the former, little is known about the role of self-image concerns. We exogenously vary self-image...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011645970
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The information content of capacity utilisation rates for output gap estimates
Graff, Michael; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2010
are not revised. Our real-time panel data set comprises 22 countries at an annual frequency with data vintages from 1995 …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012668288
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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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