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Experimental tests of survey responses to expenditure questions
Comerford, David; Delaney, Liam; Harmon, Colm - 2009
This paper tests for a number of survey effects in the elicitation of expenditure items. In particular we examine the … features of survey design influence expenditure reports. We find that over one quarter of respondents have difficulty … survey question. It is crucial to further account for these features in ongoing surveys. -- Expenditure surveys ; survey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003895103
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Do labor statistics depend on how and to whom the questions are asked? : results from a survey experiment in Tanzania
Bardasi, Elena; Beegle, Kathleen; Dillon, Andrew; … - 2010
survey experiment in Tanzania that varied two key dimensions: the level of detail of the questions and the type of respondent …. Significant differences are observed across survey designs with respect to different labor statistics. Labor force participation … rates, for example, vary by as much as 10 percentage points across the four survey assignments. Using a short labor module …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003938170
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The analytical returns to measuring a detailed household roster
Akresh, Richard; Edmonds, Eric V. - 2010
Households are dynamic while most surveys only collect information on individuals who are present at a single point in time. We exploit a unique and thorough household membership enumeration in Burkina Faso to consider the analytical costs of the typical static household roster. We document that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003940330
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Validating the use of vignettes for subjective threshold scales
Soest, Arthur van; Delaney, Liam; Harmon, Colm; … - 2007
Comparing self-assessed indicators of subjective outcomes such as health, work disability, political efficacy, job satisfaction, etc. across countries or socio-economic groups is often hampered by the fact that different groups use systematically different response scales. Anchoring vignettes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003607779
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The reliability of subjective well-being measures
Krueger, Alan B. (contributor); Schkade, David (contributor) - 2007
This paper studies the test-retest reliability of a standard self-reported life satisfaction measure and of affect measures collected from a diary method. The sample consists of 229 women who were interviewed on Thursdays, two weeks apart, in Spring 2005. The correlation of net affect (i.e.,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003578860
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Item non-response and imputation of annual labor income in panel surveys from a cross-national perspective
Frick, Joachim R. (contributor);  … - 2007
post-survey means to cope with this type of measurement error on prototypical analyses (earnings inequality, mobility and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003561621
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The determinants of asset stripping : theory and evidence from the transition economies
Campos, Nauro (contributor);  … - 2005
During the transition from plan to market, managers and politicians succeeded in maintaining control of large parts of the stock of socialist physical capital. Despite the obvious importance of this phenomenon, there have been no efforts to model, measure and investigate this process...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003299971
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Some evidence on the importance of sticky wages
Barattieri, Alessandro; Basu, Susanto; Gottschalk, Peter - 2010
evidence on the frequency of nominal wage adjustment using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003985883
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Non-response biases in surveys of school children : the case of the English PISA samples
Micklewright, John; Schnepf, Sylke V.; Skinner, … - 2010
We analyse response patterns to an important survey of school children, exploiting rich auxiliary information on … survey aims to measure. The survey is the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), which sets response … response rate thresholds as a guide to data quality. -- Non-response ; bias ; school survey ; data linkage ; PISA …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941758
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Can we measure individual risk attitudes in a survey?
Ding, Xiaohao; Hartog, Joop; Sun, Yuze - 2010
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003942220