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Measuring knowledge
Heckman, James J.; Zhou, Jin - 2022
Empirical studies in the economics of education, the measurement of skill gaps across demographic groups, and the …
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Accounting for individual-specific reliability of self-assessed measures of economic preferences and personality traits
Dohmen, Thomas; Jagelka, Tomáš - 2023
measurement error. This paper presents the first attempt at measuring both revealed and self-reported reliability of individuals …' answers on self-reports of latent characteristics. We show that measurement error on self-reports relevant to economists is … cross-sectional data. We demonstrate that it predicts revealed individual reliability over and above all measured …
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Testing the importance of search frictions, matching, and reservation prestige through randomized experiments in Jordan
Groh, Matthew; McKenzie, David J.; Shammout, Nour; … - 2014
Unemployment rates for tertiary-educated youth in Jordan are high, as is the duration of unemployment. Two randomized experiments in Jordan were used to test different theories that may explain this phenomenon. The first experiment tests the role of search and matching frictions by providing...
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Using machine learning and qualitative interviews to design a five-question women's agency index
Jayachandran, Seema; Biradavolu, Monica R.; Cooper, Jan - 2021
We propose a new method to design a short survey measure of a complex concept such as women's agency. The approach combines mixed-methods data collection and machine learning. We select the best survey questions based on how strongly correlated they are with a "gold standard" measure of the...
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The reliability of students' earnings expectations
Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Nilsson, Jan Olof William - 2017
affected by random measurement error (noise)? A test-retest method is applied and reliability is found to be fairly low; about … study, we focus on the reliability of students’ earnings expectations. To what extent is observed log earnings expectations … 0.59 in 2015 and about 0.67 in 2016. Particularly homogeneous samples exaggerate problems of measurement error. The …
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Lost in transmission
Graeber, Thomas Wilhelm; Noy, Shakked; Roth, Christopher - 2024
transmitter incentive schemes, information about the reliability of a forecast is lost in transmission more than twice as much as …
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Vulnerability to poverty : Tajikistan during and after the global financial crisis
Gang, Ira N.; Gatskova, Kseniia; Landon-Lane, John S.; … - 2016
We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by international migration and remittances, using a formal, practical, and easily decomposable vulnerability measure. Our strategy is to estimate a Markov transition probability...
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Happiness and development
Nikolova, Milena - 2016
Subjective well-being (SWB) indicators, such as positive and negative emotions, life evaluations, and assessments of having purpose and meaning and life are increasingly used alongside income, employment, and consumption measures to provide a more comprehensive view of human progress. SWB...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517733
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The capability threshold : re-examining the definition of the middle class in an unequal developing country
Burger, Ronelle; McAravey, Camren; Berg, Servaas van der - 2015
In a polarised and highly unequal country such as South Africa, it is unlikely that a definition of the middle class that is based on an income threshold will adequately capture the political and social meanings of being middle class. We therefore propose a multi-dimensional definition, rooted...
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Multidimensional equality of opportunity in the United States
Hufe, Paul; Kobus, Martyna; Peichl, Andreas; Schüle, Paul - 2022
measurement approach that allows us to target the joint distribution of income and wealth. We show that inequality of opportunity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013169954