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Firms commonly use supervisor ratings to evaluate employees when objective performance measures are unavailable. Supervisor ratings are subjective and data containing supervisor ratings typically stem from individual firm level data sets. For both these reasons, doubts persist on how useful such...
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Supervisors occupy central roles in production and performance monitoring. We study how heterogeneity in performance evaluations across supervisors affects employee and supervisor careers and firm outcomes using data on the performance system of a Scandinavian service sector firm. We show that...
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. We examine how partisan preferences influence response to the Current Population Survey (CPS). Using U.S. state and metro … experiment in Tea Party support using rain on the day of the first Tea Party rally indicates the anti-Census and anti-survey …
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household survey in India. Our method identifies enumerators exhibiting deviant field practices, and provides them feedback to … that exist within our survey. We also present evidence that our method succeeded in changing actual enumerator behavior in … recommendations to help make more informed choices. We hope our work will encourage the use of paradata to improve survey quality …
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farming in these countries face challenges with seasonal variations, high survey costs, poor record-keeping, and technical … that parsimonious imputation models based on small samples of a benchmark weekly inperson survey can offer reasonably … using a weekly phone survey may provide a viable alternative for the more costly weekly in-person survey. If replicated in …
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This paper demonstrates how quality of life can be measured by plain text in a representative survey, the German Socio …
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innovative factorial survey experiment in which a high-quality sample of employees evaluates job offers with diverging …
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Earnings nonresponse in the Current Population Survey is roughly 30% in the monthly surveys and 20% in the annual March … survey. Even if nonresponse is random, severe bias attaches to wage equation coefficient estimates on attributes not matched …
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We develop and estimate a panel data model explaining the answers to questions about subjective probabilities, using data from the US Health and Retirement Study. We explicitly account for nonresponse, rounding, and focal point 50 percent answers. Our results indicate that for three of the four...
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This paper provides a self-contained introduction to the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), concentrating on …
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