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Measuring trust : experiments and surveys in contrast and combination
Naef, Michael; Schupp, Jürgen - 2009
Trust is a concept that has attracted significant attention in economic theory and research within the last two decades: it has been applied in a number of contexts and has been investigated both as an explanatory and as a dependent variable. In this paper, we explore the questions of what...
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How threatening are transformations of happiness scales to subjective wellbeing research?
Kaiser, Caspar F.; Vendrik, Maarten C. - 2020
Two recent papers argue that many results based on ordinal reports of happiness can be reversed with suitable monotonic increasing transformations of the associated happiness scale (Bond and Lang 2019; Schröder and Yitzhaki 2017). If true, empirical research utilizing such reports is in trouble....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322174
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Adaptation to poverty in long-run panel data
Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Ghislandi, Simone - 2014
poverty. We use panel data on almost 54,000 individuals living in Germany from 1985 to 2012 to show first that life …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010440553
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The KfW/ZEW start-up panel : design and research potential
Fryges, Helmut; Gottschalk, Sandra; Kohn, Karsten - 2009
Bankengruppe and Creditreform set up a panel study of newly founded firms in Germany: the KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel. In each of the … ; panel data ; Germany …So far, there has been no data set which observes firm formations in Germany not only on a cross-sectional basis using …
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Start-up success of freelancers : new microeconometric evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel
Merz, Joachim (contributor); Paic, Peter (contributor) - 2006
revised German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for 1992 until 2002, which allows to incorporate institutional, personal and family … professions ; self-employed ; German Socio-Economic Panel ; rare events logit ; logit ; probit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003301655
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Data scarcity and poverty measurement
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Lanjouw, Peter - 2021
Measuring poverty trends and dynamics is an important undertaking for poverty reduction policies, which is further highlighted by the SDG goal 1 on eradicating poverty by 2030. We provide a broad overview of the pros and cons of poverty imputation in data-scarce environments, update recent...
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Using pseudo-panels to measure income mobility in Latin America
Cuesta, José; Nopo, Hugo; Pizzolitto, Georgina - 2011
This paper presents a comparative overview of mobility patterns in 14 Latin American countries between 1992 and 2003. Using three alternative econometric techniques on constructed pseudo-panels, the paper provides a set of estimators for the traditional notion of income mobility as well as for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009125016
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How valid are synthetic panel estimates of poverty dynamics?
Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen - 2018
A growing literature uses repeated cross-section surveys to derive 'synthetic panel' data estimates of poverty dynamics … synthetic panel estimates relative to benchmarks based on estimates derived from genuine household panel data, employing high …. Overall, we are more agnostic about the validity of the synthetic panel approach applied to these two rich countries than are …
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Satisfaction with life, happiness, and inequality - a pseudo-panel study
Jensen, Søren; Pedersen, Peder J. - 2020
European Social Survey in a pseudo-panel setting covering the years 2002 - 2014. We cover respondents from Denmark and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012171363
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Measuring poverty dynamics with synthetic panels based on repeated cross-sections
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Lanjouw, Peter - 2022
Panel data are rarely available for developing countries. Departing from traditional pseudo-panel methods that require … disaggregated household level. Validation using Monte Carlo simulations and real cross-sectional and actual panel survey data - from …
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