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The feasibility and importance of adding measures of actual experience to cross-sectional data collection

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2011

We use Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics data and data from a 2008 telephone survey of adults conducted by Westat for the Princeton Data Improvement Initiative (PDII) to explore the importance and feasibility of adding retrospective questions about actual work experience to cross-sectional...

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The insights and illusions of consumption measurements

Battistin, Erich; De Nadai, Michele; Krishnan, Nandini - 2020

While household well-being derives from long-term average rates of consumption, welfare comparisons typically rely on … questions. Identification stems from diary-recall differences in reports from the same household, does not require reports to be … new insights to interpret and reconcile diary-recall differences in household surveys. …

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Education research and administrative data

Figlio, David N.; Karbownik, Krzysztof; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2015 - Forthcoming in: Handbook of the Economics of Education, Volume 5

Thanks to extraordinary and exponential improvements in data storage and computing capacities, it is now possible to collect, manage, and analyze data in magnitudes and in manners that would have been inconceivable just a short time ago. As the world has developed this remarkable capacity to...

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Historical data: where to find them, how to use them

Giuliano, Paola; Matranga, Andrea - 2020

The use of historical data has become a standard tool in economics, serving three main purposes: to examine the influence of the past on current economic outcomes; to use unique natural experiments to test modern economic theories; and to use modern economic theories to refine our understanding...

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Using linked survey and administrative data to better measure income : implications for poverty, program effectiveness and holes in the safety net

Meyer, Bruce D.; Mittag, Nikolas - 2017

We examine the consequences of underreporting of transfer programs in household survey data for several prototypical … York State to the CPS at the household level. Program receipt in the CPS is missed for over one-third of housing assistance …

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Missing data, imputation, and endogeneity

McDonough, Ian K.; Millimet, Daniel L. - 2016

Basmann (Basmann, R.L., 1957, A generalized classical method of linear estimation of coefficients in a structural equation. Econometrica 25, 77-83; Basmann, R.L., 1959, The computation of generalized classical estimates of coefficients in a structural equation. Econometrica 27, 72-81) introduced...

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P-hacking, data type and data-sharing policy

Brodeur, Abel; Cook, Nikolai; Neisser, Carina - 2022

In this paper, we examine the relationship between p-hacking and data-sharing policies for published articles. We collect 38,876 test statistics from 1,106 articles published in leading economic journals between 2002-2020. While a data-sharing policy increases the provision of research data to...

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Addressing soil quality data gaps with imputation : evidence from Ethiopia and Uganda

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Carletto, Calogero; Gourlay, Sydney; … - 2024

Monitoring soil quality provides indispensable inputs for effective policy advice, but very few poorer countries can implement high-quality surveys on soil. We offer an alternative, low-cost imputation-based approach to generating various soil quality indicators. The estimation results validate...

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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

Using data on annual individual labor income from three representative panel datasets (German SOEP, British BHPS, Australian HILDA) we investigate a) the selectivity of item non-response (INR) and b) the impact of imputation as a prominent post-survey means to cope with this type of measurement...

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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 respondents' and non-respondents' cognitive ability that is correlated both with response and the learning achievement that the survey aims to measure. The survey is the Programme for...

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