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Measurement Error in Imputed Consumption

Baker, Scott - 2018

Because of limitations in survey-based measures of household consumption, a growing literature uses an alternative measure of consumer expenditures commonly referred to as "imputed consumption." This approach typically utilizes annual snapshots of household income and wealth from administrative...

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Improving GDP Measurement : A Measurement-Error Perspective

Aruoba, S. Boraǧan - 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...

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Measuring Test Measurement Error : A General Approach

Boyd, Donald - 2012

Test-based accountability including value-added assessments and experimental and quasi-experimental research in education rely on achievement tests to measure student skills and knowledge. Yet we know little regarding important properties of these tests, an important example being the extent of...

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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 …

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The Importance of Measurement Error in the Cost of Capital

Goolsbee, Austan - 2000

Conventional estimates of the impact of taxes on investment may be seriously biased by measurement error in the cost of capital. The existence and size of such error, however, has not been documented. Using panel data on different types of capital equipment, this paper provides direct evidence...

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Estimating Returns to Schooling When Schooling is Misreported

Kane, Thomas J. - 1999

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 …

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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 …

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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. …

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How Large is the Bias is Self-Reported Disability?

Benitez-Silva, Hugo - 2000

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...

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The Bias of the Gini Coefficient Due to Grouping : Revisiting First-Order Corrections

Van Ourti, Tom - 2008

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