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An Empirical Total Survey Error Decomposition Using Data Combination
Meyer, Bruce D.; Mittag, Nikolas - 2019
Survey error is known to be pervasive and to bias even simple, but important estimates of means, rates, and totals, such as poverty statistics and the unemployment rate. To summarize and analyze the extent, sources, and consequences of survey error, we define empirical counterparts of key...
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Combining Administrative and Survey Data to Improve Income Measurement
Meyer, Bruce D.; Mittag, Nikolas - 2019
We describe methods of combining administrative and survey data to improve the measurement of income. We begin by decomposing the total survey error in the mean of survey reports of dollars received from a government transfer program. We decompose this error into three parts, generalized...
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A Model of Errors in BMI Based on Self-Reported and Measured Anthropometrics with Evidence from Brazilian Data
Davillas, Apostolos; de Oliveira, Victor Hugo; Jones, … - 2022
The economics of obesity literature implicitly assumes that measured anthropometrics are error-free and they are often …
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Missing Data in Imputed Highest Grade Completed in the 2015 -2018 NBER CPS Extracts
Hersch, Joni; Mendoza Lopez, Fernando; Bennett Shinall, … - 2019
In 2015, the Current Population Survey (CPS) eliminated three questions related to educational attainment. These questions are used by the NBER to calculate the variable, "Imputed Highest Grade Completed" (ihigrdc) in their Monthly Outgoing Rotation Group (MORG) extracts. Imputed Highest Grade...
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Documenting and Explaining the Dramatic Rise of the New Society Journals in Economics
Ham, John C.; Wright, Julian; Ye, Ziqiu - 2023
journals while updating journal rankings for all economics journals. We then use regression analysis based on how these …An important recent event in the economics field is the introduction of seven new society journals. Using standard … iterative ranking methodologies from economics, as well as some new methodologies, we demonstrate the spectacular rise of these …
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A decade of editing the European economic review
Eckstein, Zvi; Gal-Or, Esther; Gylfason, Thorvaldur; … - 2011
few anecdotes to illustrate the work of an academic journal editor. …
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Identifying conflict and violence in micro-level surveys
Brück, Tilman; Justino, Patricia; Verwimp, Philip; … - 2010
The overall goal of the report is to increase the capacity of researchers and policy makers to identify comparatively, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict. The report provides an extensive overview of existing practices and datasets used...
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Identifying Conflict and Violence in Micro-Level Surveys
Brück, Tilman; Justino, Patricia; Verwimp, Philip; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
The overall goal of the report is to increase the capacity of researchers and policy makers to identify comparatively, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict. The report provides an extensive overview of existing practices and datasets used...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008560394
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Mass Reproducibility and Replicability: A New Hope
Brodeur, Abel; Mikola, Derek; Cook, Nikolai - 2024
This study pushes our understanding of research reliability by reproducing and replicating claims from 110 papers in leading economic and political science journals. The analysis involves computational reproducibility checks and robustness assessments. It reveals several patterns. First, we...
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Household Collective Models: Three Decades of Theoretical Contributions and Empirical Evidence
Donni, Olivier; Molina, José Alberto - 2018
Household collective models celebrate their thirtieth birthday. The collective approach constitutes, perhaps, the microeconomics topic that has produced the largest number of papers (both published and in working paper/mimeo formats) during the last three decades, beginning with the seminal...
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