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Mismeasured Household Size and its Implications for the Identification of Economies of Scale
Halliday, Timothy - 2008
We consider the possibility that demographic variables are measured with errors which arise because household surveys … measure demographic structures at a point-in-time, whereas household composition evolves throughout the survey period. We … construct and estimate sharp bounds on household size and find that the degree of these measurement errors is non …
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Reconciling Occupational Mobility in the Current Population Survey
vom Lehn, Christian - 2020
Measuring occupational mobility from the Current Population Survey using recall (retrospective) or linked panel responses (longitudinal) generates substantially different outcomes, both in levels and trends. Using a generalized method of moments technique, we estimate the actual level of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012827354
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Using the P90/P10 Index to Measure US Inequality Trends with Current Population Survey Data : A View from Inside the Census Bureau Vaults
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Feng, Shuaizhang; Jenkins, … - 2021
show that using P90/P10 does not completely obviate time-inconsistency problems, especially for household income inequality … public use data, closely track inequality trends in labor earnings and household income using internal data. But estimates of …
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Partisanship and Survey Refusal
Borgschulte, Mark; Cho, Heepyung; Lubotsky, Darren - 2022
Response rates to important surveys used in social science research have been falling precipitously over the last few decades, raising questions about the representativeness of the resulting data and the quality of evidence that comes from it. We examine how partisan preferences influence...
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How to Think About Time-Use Data : What Inferences Can We Make About Long- and Short-Run Time Use from Time Diaries?
Frazis, Harley - 2010
and how surveys with multiple household members or multiple days are an improvement over single-diary surveys …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136031
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Analyzing the Anticipation of Treatments Using Data on Notification Dates
Crepon, Bruno - 2010
When treatments may occur at different points in time, most evaluation methods assume – implicitly or explicitly – that all the information used by subjects about the occurrence of a future treatment is available to the researcher. This is often called the “no anticipation” assumption....
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Policy Relevant Heterogeneity in the Value of Statistical Life : New Evidence from Panel Data Quantile Regressions
Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2012
We examine differences in the value of statistical life (VSL) across potential wage levels in panel data using quantile regressions with intercept heterogeneity. Latent heterogeneity is econometrically important and affects the estimated VSL. Our findings indicate that a reasonable average cost...
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Child Mental Health and Educational Attainment : Multiple Observers and the Measurement Error Problem
Johnston, David W. - 2011
We examine the effect of survey measurement error on the empirical relationship between child mental health and personal and family characteristics, and between child mental health and educational progress. Our contribution is to use unique UK survey data that contains (potentially biased)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121757
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Creating New Administrative Data to Describe the Scientific Workforce : The Star Metrics Program
Lane, Julia - 2012
In common with many countries, the substantial United States investment in R&D is characterized by limited documentation of the nature and results of those investments (MacIlwain 2010, Marburger 2005). Despite the increased calls for reporting by key stakeholders, current data systems cannot...
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Comparing Distributions of Ordinal Data
Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2020
To compare distributions of ordinal data such as individuals' responses on Likert-type scale variables summarizing subjective well-being, we should not apply the toolbox of methods developed for cardinal variables such as income. Instead we should use an analogous toolbox which takes account of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838490