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The analytical returns to measuring a detailed household roster
Akresh, Richard; Edmonds, Eric V. - 2010
the analysis of issues that are intertwined with who is present in the household, such as the measurement of income … for more detailed and thorough measurement of household composition in future multi-purpose household surveys. -- Sibling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003940330
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Some evidence on the importance of sticky wages
Barattieri, Alessandro; Basu, Susanto; Gottschalk, Peter - 2010
correcting for measurement error, wages appear to be very sticky. In the average quarter, the probability that an individual will … consumer price inflation rate. -- Wage stickiness ; micro-level evidence ; measurement error …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003985883
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Adjusting body mass for measurement error with invalid validation data
Courtemanche, Charles; Pinkston, Joshua C.; Stewart, … - 2014
in reported values in both samples, making our correction more robust to differences in measurement error across surveys …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003829721
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Using survey questions to measure preferences : lessons from an experimental validation in Kenya
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie; Miguel, Edward - 2019
Can a short survey instrument reliably measure a range of fundamental economic preferences across diverse settings? We focus on survey questions that systematically predict behavior in incentivized experimental tasks among German university students (Becker et al. 2016) and were implemented...
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Measuring preferences for competition with experimentally-validated survey questions
Fallucchi, Francesco; Nosenzo, Daniele; Reuben, Ernesto - 2019
We validate experimentally a new survey item to measure the preference for competition. The item, which measures participants' agreement with the statement "Competition brings the best out of me", predicts individuals' willingness to compete in the laboratory after controlling for their ability,...
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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
measure agency for 209 women in Haryana, India, first, through a semi-structured interview and, second, through a large set of … close-ended questions. We use qualitative coding methods to score each woman's agency based on the interview, which we treat … resulting five-question index is as strongly correlated with the coded qualitative interview as is an index that uses all of the …
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Survey design and the determinants of subjective wellbeing : an experimental analysis
Holford, Angus J.; Pudney, Stephen E. - 2015
We analyse the results of experiments on questionnaire design and interview mode in the first four waves (2008-11) of … questions within the interview. We find significant evidence of an influence of interview mode and question design on the …
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Which schools and pupils respond to educational achievement surveys? : a focus on the English PISA sample
Schnepf, Sylke V.; Durrant, Gabriele B.; Micklewright, John - 2014
Using logistic and multilevel logistic modelling we examine non-response at the school and pupil level to the important educational achievement survey Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) for England. The analysis exploits unusually rich auxiliary information on all schools and...
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Noncognitive human capital and misreporting behavior in online surveys
Li, Haizheng; Liu, Qinyi; Xu, Yiting - 2024
In this study, we investigate misreporting behavior in online surveys based on the field experiments in a large-scale online training program for rural teachers. We link the digitally recorded data with survey responses and integrate randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in the survey design....
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