Social surveys are often used to estimate unemployment duration distributions. Survey nonresponse may then cause a bias … respondents and non-respondents. We develop a method to empirically distinguish between two explanations for a bias in results … both explanations. We discuss implications for standard methods to deal with non-response bias. …

geographically to take place, and we show that not taking reporting bias into account leads to serious underestimation of the total …

-household peers' true BMI. This may bias studies that use BMI based on self-reported data as a regressor. Common methods to mitigate …

response rate thresholds as a guide to data quality. -- Non-response ; bias ; school survey ; data linkage ; PISA …

heteroskedasticity-robust standard errors. This paper develops the "fixed-bandwidth" alternative asymptotic theory for RD designs, which … sheds light on the connection between both approaches. I provide alternative formulas (approximations) for the bias and …-robust standard errors in RD settings. Bias mitigation approaches are discussed and a novel, bootstrap higher-order bias correction …

-response may bias estimates. Linking Dutch survey data to administrative income data allows us to examine whether selective … responses bias the estimated relationship between parental income and children's mathematics and language test scores in grades … because they may be biased by selective non-response. The direction of such bias is difficult to predict a priori. Bias due to …