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Measuring the Measurement Error : A Method to Qualitatively Validate Survey Data
Blattman, Christopher - 2015
Field experiments rely heavily on self-reported data, but subjects may misreport behaviors, especially sensitive ones …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013017511
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An Evaluation of Bias in Three Measures of Teacher Quality : Value-Added, Classroom Observations, and Student Surveys
Bacher-Hicks, Andrew - 2017
teachers' classrooms, prior research has largely focused on the validity of value-added measures. We conduct an experiment … two previous experiments, we provide further evidence that value-added measures are unbiased predictors of teacher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954918
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Improving GDP Measurement : A Measurement-Error Perspective
Aruoba, S. Borağan - 2013
We provide a new and superior measure of U.S. GDP, obtained by applying optimal signal-extraction techniques to the (noisy) expenditure-side and income-side estimates. Its properties - particularly as regards serial correlation - differ markedly from those of the standard expenditure-side...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083397
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Estimating Returns to Schooling When Schooling is Misreported
Kane, Thomas J.; Rouse, Cecilia E.; Staiger, Douglas - 2021
recent IV estimates, relying on natural experiments' to identify the payoff to schooling. First, respondents tend to self … magnitude of the bias depends upon the nature of the measurement error in the region of educational attainment affected by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013234051
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Seasonal Adjustment with Measurement Error Present
Hausman, Jerry A.; Watson, Mark W. - 2021
Seasonal adjustment procedures attempt to estimate the sample realizations of an unobservable economic time series in the presence of both seasonal factors and irregular factors. In this paper we consider a factor which has not been considered explicitly in previous treatments of seasonal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013248433
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Measurement Errors in Investment Equations
Almeida, Heitor - 2010
measurement error in investment equations. Our experiments show that individual-fixed effects, error heteroscedasticity, and data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144160
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The Bias of the Gini Coefficient due to Grouping
Ourti, Tom Van; Clarke, Philip - 2008
We propose a first order bias correction term for the Gini index to reduce the bias due to grouping. The first order … reveals an intuitive formula for the remaining second order bias which is useful in empirical analyses. We analyze the … it reduces a considerable share of the bias due to grouping. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325812
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Measuring Real Consumption and CPI Bias Under Lockdown Conditions
Diewert, Erwin - 2020
, Eurostat and the UN is shown to result in downward bias in the CPI and upward bias in real consumption. We conclude that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833756
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The Bias of the Gini Coefficient Due to Grouping : Revisiting First-Order Corrections
Van Ourti, Tom - 2008
We propose a first order bias correction term for the Gini index to reduce the bias due to grouping. The first order … reveals an intuitive formula for the remaining second order bias which is useful in empirical analyses. We analyze the … it reduces a considerable share of the bias due to grouping …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012722922
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How Large is the Bias is Self-Reported Disability?
Benitez-Silva, Hugo; Buchinsky, Moshe; Rust, John P.; … - 2021
A pervasive concern with the use of self-reported health and disability measures in behavioral models is that they are biased and endogenous. A commonly suggested explanation is that survey respondents exaggerate the severity of health problems and incidence of disabilities in order to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218308