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Two economists' musings on the stability of locus of control
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Schurer, Stefanie - 2011
Empirical studies of the role of non-cognitive skills in driving economic behavior often rely heavily on the assumption that these skills are stable over the relevant time frame. We analyze the change in a specific non-cognitive skill, i.e. locus of control, in order to directly assess the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278759
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Downward Nominal Wage Flexibility : Real or Measurement Error?
Gottschalk, Peter - 2004
This paper presents a new method to correct for measurement error in wage data and applies this method to address an … a cut in nominal wages is substantially overstated in data that is not corrected for measurement error. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262069
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Mismeasured household size and its implications for the identification of economies of scale
Halliday, Timothy J. - 2008
construct and estimate sharp bounds on household size and find that the degree of these measurement errors is non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269073
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Measurement Error in Education and Growth Regressions
Alessie, Rob J. M.; Portela, Miguel; Teulings, Coen N. - 2004
The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … error. This paper analyses the effect of this measurement error on GDP regressions. There is a systematic difference in the … the measurement error. The standard attenuation bias suggests that using these corrected data would lead to a higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276810
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Income Convergence and the Flow out of Poverty in India, 1994-2005
Barrientos Quiroga, Paola Andrea; Blunch, Niels-Hugo; … - 2015
explicitly addresses issues pertaining to the potential endogeneity and measurement error of initial income and poverty. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513147
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Income Convergence and the Flow out of Poverty in India, 1994-2005
Quiroga, Barrientos; Andrea, Paola; Blunch, Niels-Hugo; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
explicitly addresses issues pertaining to the potential endogeneity and measurement error of initial income and poverty. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212565
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Two Economists’ Musings on the Stability of Locus of Control
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Schurer, Stefanie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Empirical studies of the role of non-cognitive skills in driving economic behavior often rely heavily on the assumption that these skills are stable over the relevant time frame. We analyze the change in a specific non-cognitive skill, i.e. locus of control, in order to directly assess the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008924609
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Errors in self-reported earnings: the role of previous earnings volatility
Akee, Randall K. Q. - 2007
I report the measurement error in self-reported earnings for a developing country. Administrative data from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268769
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Consequences of data error in aggregate indicators: evidence from the human development index
Wolff, Hendrik; Chong, Howard; Auffhammer, Maximilian - 2008
This paper examines the consequences of data error in data series used to construct aggregate indicators. Using the most popular indicator of country level economic development, the Human Development Index (HDI), we identify three separate sources of data error. We propose a simple statistical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268862
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Misclassification errors and the underestimation of US unemployment rates
Feng, Shuaizhang; Hu, Yingyao - 2010
Using recent results in the measurement error literature, we show that the official U.S. unemployment rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272631