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The preference survey module : a validated instrument for measuring risk, time, and social preferences

Falk, Armin; Becker, Anke; Dohmen, Thomas; Huffman, David; … - 2016

instruments included in the module were the best predictors of preferences revealed in incentivized choice experiments. We also …

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How do you find a good manager?

Weidmann, Ben; Vecci, Joseph; Said, Farah; Deming, David J. - 2024

This paper develops a novel method to identify the causal contribution of managers to team performance. The method requires repeated random assignment of managers to multiple teams and controls for individuals' skills. A good manager is someone who consistently causes their team to produce more...

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The implications of self-reported body weight and height for measurement error in BMI

Davillas, Apostolos; Jones, Andrew M. - 2021

We designed an experiment to explore the extent of measurement error in body mass index (BMI), when based on self …-household peers' true BMI. This may bias studies that use BMI based on self-reported data as a regressor. Common methods to mitigate …

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Institution formation and cooperation with heterogeneous agents

Kube, Sebastian; Schaube, Sebastian; … - 2014

Driven by an ever-growing number of studies that explore the effectiveness of institutional mechanisms meant to mitigate cooperation problems, recent years have seen an increasing interest in the endogenous implementation of these institutions. In this paper, we test within a unified framework...

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Handing out guns at a knife fight : behavioral limitations of subgame-perfect implementation

Fehr, Ernst; Powell, Michael; Wilkening, Tom - 2014

The assumption that payoff-relevant information is observable but not verifiable is important for many core results in contract, organizational and institutional economics. However, subgame-perfect implementation (SPI) mechanisms - which are based on off-equilibrium arbitration clauses that...

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Whoever you want me to be: personality and incentives

McGee, Andrew D.; McGee, Peter - 2020

within-subject, laboratory experiment, we compare personality measures with and without incentives for misrepresentation …

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Evaluation of a tax reform : a model with measurement error

Euwals, Rob (contributor) - 2006

Parts of the Dutch tax reform 2001 are directed towards fiscal partners in a household and aim at lowering the marginal tax burden of the partner with the lowest (potential) labour income. An important goal of the reform is to increase the employment rate of these partners, which are in majority...

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Correcting for misreporting of government benefits

Mittag, Nikolas - 2016

Recent validation studies show that survey misreporting is pervasive and biases common analyses. Addressing this problem is further complicated, because validation data are usually convenience samples and access is restricted, making them more suitable to document than to solve the problem. I...

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Measurement error in earnings data: replication of Meijer, Rohwedder, and Wansbeek’s mixture model approach to combining survey and register data

Jenkins, Stephen; Rios-Avila, Fernando - 2021

Meijer, Rohwedder, and Wansbeek (MRW, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2012) develop methods for prediction of a single earnings figure per worker from mixture factor models fitted using earnings data from multiple linked data sources. MRW apply their method using parameter estimates...

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The Bias of the Gini Coefficient due to Grouping

Ourti, Tom Van; Clarke, Philip - 2008

We propose a first order bias correction term for the Gini index to reduce the bias due to grouping. The first order … reveals an intuitive formula for the remaining second order bias which is useful in empirical analyses. We analyze the … it reduces a considerable share of the bias due to grouping. …

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