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Economic Panel Study (SOEP). Furthermore, the paper shows that problems that are difficult to monitor, especially problems like …
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We investigate how worries in Germany change across time and age, drawing on both closed-ended questions (which …
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Trust is a concept that has attracted significant attention in economic theory and research within the last two decades: it has been applied in a number of contexts and has been investigated both as an explanatory and as a dependent variable. In this paper, we explore the questions of what...
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After reviewing the literature on item non-response we focus on three issues: First, is there significant heterogeneity … in item non-response across financial questions and in the association of covariates with item non-response across … detailed survey and interviewer data from the German Socioeconomic Panel, considering a broad set of income and wealth outcomes. …
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: representation error, item non-response error and measurement error. We further decompose these sources into lower level sources such …
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decompose this error into three parts, generalized coverage error (which combines coverage and unit non-response error and any … error from weighting), item non-response or imputation error, and measurement error. We then discuss these three sources of …
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Time-use researchers are typically interested in the time use of individuals, but time use data are samples of person-days. Given day-to-day variation in how people spend their time, this distinction is analytically important. We examine the conditions necessary to make inferences about the time...
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This paper presents an experimentally validated survey module to measure six key economic preferences – risk aversion, discounting, trust, altruism, positive and negative reciprocity – in a reliable, parsimonious and cost-effective way. The survey instruments included in the module were the...
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Kapteyn and Ypma (Journal of Labour Economics 2007) is an influential study of errors in survey and administrative data on employment earnings. To fit their mixture models, Kapteyn and Ypma assume a specific fraction of their sample have error-free earnings. Using a new UK dataset, we assess the...
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corresponding experimental games outside the original student sample from Bonn, Germany. Our results, which are based on a …
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