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Explaining Variation in Child Labor Statistics

Dillon, Andrew - 2012

randomized survey experiment in Tanzania focusing on two survey aspects: different questionnaire design to classify children work …. Proxy reports do not differ significantly from a childﾒs self-report. Further analysis demonstrates that survey design …

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Do Labor Statistics Depend on How and to Whom the Questions are Asked? Results from a Survey Experiment in Tanzania

Bardasi, Elena - 2012

survey experiment in Tanzania that varied two key dimensions: the level of detail of the questions and the type of respondent …. Significant differences are observed across survey designs with respect to different labor statistics. Labor force participation … rates, for example, vary by as much as 10 percentage points across the four survey assignments. Using a short labor module …

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The Reliability of Subjective Well-Being Measures

Krueger, Alan B.; Schkade, David - 2021

This paper studies the test-retest reliability of a standard self-reported life satisfaction measure and of affect measures collected from a diary method. The sample consists of 229 women who were interviewed on Thursdays, two weeks apart, in Spring 2005. The correlation of net affect (i.e.,...

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Estimating the Return to College Selectivity Over the Career Using Administrative Earning Data

Dale, Stacy Berg - 2011

We estimate the monetary return to attending a highly selective college using the College and Beyond (C&B) Survey … self-reported reported in 1995 on the C&B follow-up survey. In this analysis, we use administrative earnings data to …

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