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Heckman, James J.; Zhou, Jin - 2022

Empirical studies in the economics of education, the measurement of skill gaps across demographic groups, and the impacts of interventions on skill formation rely on psychometrically validated test scores that record the proportion of items correctly answered. Test scores are sometimes taken as...

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Testing the Importance of Search Frictions, Matching, and Reservation Prestige Through Randomized Experiments in Jordan

Groh, Matthew; McKenzie, David; Shammout, Nour; … - 2014

Unemployment rates for tertiary-educated youth in Jordan are high, as is the duration of unemployment. Two randomized experiments in Jordan were used to test different theories that may explain this phenomenon. The first experiment tests the role of search and matching frictions by providing...

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Using Machine Learning and Qualitative Interviews to Design a Five-Question Women's Agency Index

Jayachandran, Seema; Biradavolu, Monica; Cooper, Jan - 2021

We propose a new method to design a short survey measure of a complex concept such as women's agency. The approach combines mixed-methods data collection and machine learning. We select the best survey questions based on how strongly correlated they are with a "gold standard" measure of the...

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Testing the Importance of Search Frictions, Matching, and Reservation Prestige Through Randomized Experiments in Jordan

Groh, Matthew; McKenzie, David; Shammout, Nour; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

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The Reliability of Students' Earnings Expectations

Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Nilsson, William - 2017

study, we focus on the reliability of students earnings expectations. To what extent is observed log earnings expectations … affected by random measurement error (noise)? A test-retest method is applied and reliability is found to be fairly low; about … analysis show how these measures of reliability can be adjusted to become more suitable to other studies, where different …

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Lost in Transmission

Graeber, Thomas W; Noy, Shakked; Roth, Christopher - 2024

transmitter incentive schemes, information about the reliability of a forecast is lost in transmission more than twice as much as …

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Accounting For Individual-Specific Reliability of Self-Assessed Measures of Economic Preferences and Personality Traits

Dohmen, Thomas; Jagelka, Tomáš - 2023

measurement error. This paper presents the first attempt at measuring both revealed and self-reported reliability of individuals … cross-sectional data. We demonstrate that it predicts revealed individual reliability over and above all measured … characterises, survey conditions, and experimental treatments. We show how our simple self-reported reliability measure can be used …

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