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Identification, characteristics and impact of faked interviews in surveys : an analysis by means of genuine fakes in the raw data of SOEP
Schraepler, Joerg-Peter; Wagner, Gert G. - 2003
, panel data provide a unique opportunity to identify data which are actually faked by interviewers. By comparing data of two … waves almost all fakes are easily identifiable. So the raw data of the German Socio- Economic Panel Study (SOEP) provide a … rich source of faked interviews because it is built on several sub-samples. However, because interviewers know that panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261661
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Identification, Characteristics and Impact of Faked Interviews in Surveys An analysis by means of genuine fakes in the raw data of SOEP
Schraepler, Joerg-Peter; Wagner, Gert G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
, panel data provide a unique opportunity to identify data which are actually faked by interviewers. By comparing data of two … waves almost all fakes are easily identifiable. So the raw data of the German Socio- Economic Panel Study (SOEP) provide a … rich source of faked interviews because it is built on several sub-samples. However, because interviewers know that panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822306
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The research potential of new types of enterprise data based on surveys from official statistics in Germany
Wagner, Joachim - 2009
A new generation of data sets became available recently in the research data centres of the German statistical offices. These new data combine information for firms gathered in different surveys (or from other sources) that could not be analyzed jointly before. This paper offers a short...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269389
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Self-Selection, Earnings, and Out-Migration: A Longitudinal Study of Immigrants to Germany
Constant, Amelie F.; Massey, Douglas S. - 2003
conduct a detailed event history analysis of men and women immigrants in Germany. Our 14-year longitudinal study reveals that … range and nature of social attachments to Germany and origin countries, and grows higher toward retirement. This selective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272300
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Measuring Labor Market Frictions: A Cross-Country Comparison
Ridder, Geert; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2003
separate analyses for the USA, the UK, Germany and the Netherlands. We quantify the monopsony power due to search frictions and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261551
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The Research Potential of New Types of Enterprise Data Based on Surveys from Official Statistics in Germany
Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
A new generation of data sets became available recently in the research data centres of the German statistical offices. These new data combine information for firms gathered in different surveys (or from other sources) that could not be analyzed jointly before. This paper offers a short...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005103280
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Bad Behavior: Delinquency, Arrest and Early School Leaving
Ward, Shannon; Williams, Jenny; van Ours, Jan C. - 2015
In this paper we investigate the effects of delinquency and arrest on school leaving using information on males from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997. We use a multivariate mixed proportional hazard framework in order to account for common unobserved confounders and reverse...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307456
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The Perry Preschoolers at Late Midlife: A Study in Design-Specific Inference
Heckman, James J.; Karapakula, Ganesh - 2019
This paper presents the first analysis of the life course outcomes through late midlife (around age 55) for the participants of the iconic Perry Preschool Project, an experimental high-quality preschool program for disadvantaged African-American children in the 1960s. We discuss the design of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059092
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Intergenerational and Intragenerational Externalities of the Perry Preschool Project
Heckman, James J.; Karapakula, Ganesh - 2019
This paper examines the impact of the iconic Perry Preschool Project on the children and siblings of the original participants. The children of treated participants have fewer school suspensions, higher levels of education and employment, and lower levels of participation in crime, compared with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059093
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Returns to Education and Wage Equations
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro Silva - 2001
We show why considering a number of education-dependent covariates in the wage equation decreases coefficient of education in the wage equation. We use a meta-analysis of results for Portugal to show, empirically, that this is the case. The coefficient decreases when we use covariates that can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262504