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Supervisors occupy central roles in production and performance monitoring. We study how heterogeneity in performance evaluations across supervisors affects employee and supervisor careers and firm outcomes using data on the performance system of a Scandinavian service sector firm. We show that...
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Firms commonly use supervisor ratings to evaluate employees when objective performance measures are unavailable. Supervisor ratings are subjective and data containing supervisor ratings typically stem from individual firm level data sets. For both these reasons, doubts persist on how useful such...
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We combine a survey and an experiment with real pay-out among Peking University students to measure and validate … individual risk attitudes. The experiment involves choosing between a cash payment and playing a lottery. The survey questions … parental income, risk attitudes are domain-specific. Correlations between survey measures and experimental measures, are in the …
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index shift. The method is illustrated using Canadian National PopulationHealth Survey data. The McMaster Health Utility …
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Earnings nonresponse in the Current Population Survey is roughly 30% in the monthly surveys and 20% in the annual March … survey. Even if nonresponse is random, severe bias attaches to wage equation coefficient estimates on attributes not matched …
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We develop and estimate a panel data model explaining the answers to questions about subjective probabilities, using data from the US Health and Retirement Study. We explicitly account for nonresponse, rounding, and focal point 50 percent answers. Our results indicate that for three of the four...
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This paper provides a self-contained introduction to the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), concentrating on …
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