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Imputing Risk Tolerance from Survey Responses
Kimball, Miles Spencer; Shapiro, Matthew D.; Sahm, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
households. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829101
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Risk Preferences in the PSID: Individual Imputations and Family Covariation
Kimball, Miles Spencer; Shapiro, Matthew D.; Sahm, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
members of households.It finds fairly strong covariation in attitudes about risk -- between parents and children and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005088932
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The Potential use of In-home Scanner Technology for Budget Surveys
Leicester, Andrew - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper considers the potential role of in-home scanners as a method of data collection for national budget surveys … spending are similar. A large part of the difference is explained by households in the scanner survey failing to record any … food spending in a given week. The gaps are widened once demographic differences between the surveys are controlled for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271461
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Measuring the Accuracy of Survey Responses using Administrative Register Data: Evidence from Denmark
Lassen, David Dreyer; Kreiner, Claus Thustrup; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
, the possibility to issue surveys repeatedly to the same persons and linking up to longitudinal tax records provides an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271462
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Increases in Wealth among the Elderly in the Early 1990s: How Much is Due to Survey Design?
Rohwedder, Susann; Haider, Steven J.; Hurd, Michael D. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004
between 1993 and 1995. Such an increase is not found in other US household surveys around that period. This paper examines one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005085001
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Inaccurate age and sex data in the Census PUMS files: Evidence and Implications
Stevenson, Betsey; Alexander, J. Trent; Davern, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
We discover and document errors in public use microdata samples ("PUMS files") of the 2000 Census, the 2003-2006 American Community Survey, and the 2004-2009 Current Population Survey. For women and men ages 65 and older, age- and sex-specific population estimates generated from the PUMS files...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008634675
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Seam Bias, Multiple-State, Multiple-Spell Duration Models and the Employment Dynamics of Disadvantaged Women
Shore-Sheppard, Lara; Ham, John C.; Li, Xianghong - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
Panel surveys generally suffer from "seam bias"--too few transitions observed within reference periods and too many …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040650
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Using Elicited Choice Probabilities to Estimate Random Utility Models: Preferences for Electricity Reliability
blass, asher a.; Lach, Saul; Manski, Charles - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
When data on actual choices are not available, researchers studying preferences sometimes pose choice scenarios and ask respondents to state the actions they would choose if they were to face these scenarios. The data on stated choices are then used to estimate random utility models, as if they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005710241
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Cross-Country Evidence on the Link Between Volatility and Growth
Ramey, Garey; Ramey, Valerie Ann - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1994
This paper presents empirical evidence against the standard dichotomy in macroeconomics that separates growth from the volatility of economic fluctuations. In a sample of 92 countries as well as a sample of OECD countries, we find that countries with higher volatility have lower growth. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830785
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Sampling Errors and Confidence Intervals for Order Statistics: Implementing the Family Support Act
Horrace, William C.; Schmidt, Peter; Witte, Ann Dryden - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1995
child care. States must carry out surveys to estimate these 75th percentiles. This estimation problem raises two major …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005777271