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The ifo Investment Survey asks firms in the German manufacturing sector about the importance of sales, technological …
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such as the Consumer Expenditure Survey. A detailed comparison is made between scanner data and diary-based budget survey … spending are similar. A large part of the difference is explained by households in the scanner survey failing to record any …
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This paper presents a comparative assessment of the performance of the household expenditure survey programs in … Australia, Canada, the UK and US. Cross-country and time series variation in survey methodology and experience is used to assess … remained fairly stable in Canada and Australia; in the UK and US coverage rates declined sharply. Survey response rates and top …
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, and Szembrot, 2014), which uses self-reported responses to subjective well-being (SWB) and stated preference (SP) survey …
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summarize the results of a household electrical appliance survey and describe how households in rural Kenya differ in terms of …
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We introduce the interview assignment problem, which generalizes the one-to-one matching model of Gale and Shapley (1962) by introducing a stage of costly information acquisition. Firms learn preferences over workers via costly interviews. Even if all firms and workers conduct the same number of...
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This paper uses a new administrative dataset of students at a large university matched to courses and instructors to analyze the importance of teacher quality at the postsecondary level. Instructors are matched to both objective and subjective characteristics of teacher quality to estimate the...
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This paper examines non-response in a large government survey. The response rate for the American Time Use Survey (ATUS … of estimates are broadly similar. The paper ends with a discussion of survey design features, their effect on the types …
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Motivated by the observation that survey expectations of stock returns are inconsistent with rational return … pricing literature are consistent with the survey evidence. We empirically test (1) the notion that survey forecasts … constitute rational but risk-neutral forecasts of future returns, and (2) the notion that survey forecasts are ambiguity averse …
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of bilateral exports, a panel of data from 2006 through 2017, and an annual Gallup survey which asks people in up to 157 …
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