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Measuring Poverty Dynamics with Synthetic Panels Based on Repeated Cross-Sections
Dang, Hai-Anh; Lanjouw, Peter - 2022
Panel data are rarely available for developing countries. Departing from traditional pseudo-panel methods that require multiple rounds of cross-sectional data to study poverty mobility at the cohort level, we develop a procedure that works with as few as two survey rounds and produces point...
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Dependence Measures in Bivariate Gamma Frailty Models
van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2014
Bivariate duration data frequently arise in economics, biostatistics and other areas. In "bivariate frailty models", dependence between the frailties (i.e., unobserved determinants) induces dependence between the durations. Using notions of quadrant dependence, we study restrictions that this...
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An Empirical Growth Model for Major Oil Exporters
Esfahani, Hadi Salehi - 2012
-run output equation with a coefficient equal to the share of capital (α). The long-run theory is tested using quarterly data on … results support the long-run theory. The existence of long-run relations between real output, foreign output and real oil … steadily over the past three decades, the theory suggests that the effect of oil income on the economy's steady state growth …
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Dimensions of Quality of Life in Germany : Measured by Plain Text Responses in a Representative Survey (SOEP)
Wagner, Gert G. - 2017
This paper demonstrates how quality of life can be measured by plain text in a representative survey, the German Socio Economic Panel Study (SOEP). Furthermore, the paper shows that problems that are difficult to monitor, especially problems like the state of the European Union, long-term...
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Measuring Trust : Experiments and Surveys in Contrast and Combination
Naef, Michael - 2009
Trust is a concept that has attracted - significant attention in economic theory and research within the last two …
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Measuring Gender Attitudes Using List Experiments
Asadullah, M. Niaz - 2020
We elicit adolescent girl's attitudes towards intimate partner violence and child marriage using purposefully collected data from rural Bangladesh. Alongside direct survey questions, we conduct list experiments to elicit true preferences for intimate partner violence and marriage before age...
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Using Survey Questions to Measure Preferences : Lessons from an Experimental Validation in Kenya
Bauer, Michal - 2019
quantitative survey measures - hypothetical versions of experimental tasks - of time preference, attitude to risk and altruism are …
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First Impressions Matter. Interview Interactions and Interviewers' Subjective Measures
Doorley, Karina; Sierminska, Eva - 2023
This note uses a unique dataset for Germany which contains interviewer-rated physical appearance assessments of survey respondents both before and after the interview to address three questions. Firstly, after the first impression of an individual's physical appearance, what characteristics make...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014260946
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Subjective Measures of Economic Well-Being and the Influence of Income Uncertainty
Schwarze, Johannes - 2021
This paper provides evidence that subjective measures of individual well being can be used to study the impact of income uncertainty from an ex ante point of view. Two different measures of subjective well being are under study: Satisfaction with household income and the income evaluation...
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How Valid are Synthetic Panel Estimates of Poverty Dynamics?
Herault, Nicolas - 2018
A growing literature uses repeated cross-section surveys to derive 'synthetic panel' data estimates of poverty dynamics statistics. It builds on the pioneering study by Dang, Lanjouw, Luoto, and McKenzie (Journal of Development Economics, 2014) providing bounds estimates and the innovative...
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