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What Leads to Measurement Errors? Evidence from Reports of Program Participation in Three Surveys

Celhay, Pablo A.; Meyer, Bruce D.; Mittag, Nikolas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Measurement errors are often a large source of bias in survey data. Lack of knowledge of the determinants of such … respondent's degree of cooperation with the survey overall. We provide evidence on how survey design choices affect reporting … errors. Our findings help survey users to gauge the reliability of their data and to devise estimation strategies that can …

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Explaining Product Price Differences Across Countries

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2007

A substantial part of international differences in prices of individual products, both goods and services, can be explained by differences in per capita income, wage compression, or low wage dispersion among low-wage workers, and short-term exchange rate fluctuations. Higher per capita income is...

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Affiliates of U.S. and Japanese Multinationals in East Asian Production and Trade

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2000

Since 1977, and in some cases starting before that, most East Asian countries' export patterns in manufacturing have been transformed from industry distributions typical of developing countries to distributions more like those of advanced countries. The process of change in most cases started...

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Outward FDI and Parent Exports and Employment : Japan, the United States, and Sweden

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2000

Within Japanese multinational firms, parent exports from Japan to a foreign region are positively related to production in that region by affiliates of that parent, given the parent's home production in Japan and the region's size and income level. This relationship is similar to that found for...

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Foreign Production by U.S. Firms and Parent Firm Employment

Lipsey, Robert E. - 1999

Despite the persistent fears that production abroad by U.S. multinationals reduces employment at home, there has, in fact, been almost no aggregate shift of production or employment to foreign countries. Some continuing shifts to foreign locations by U.S. manufacturing firms have been largely...

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The Anti-Poverty, Targeting, and Labor Supply Effects of the Proposed Child Tax Credit Expansion

Corinth, Kevin; Meyer, Bruce D.; Stadnicki, Matthew; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

labor supply effects of the expansion by linking survey data with administrative tax and government program data which form …

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Errors in Reporting and Imputation of Government Benefits and Their Implications

Celhay, Pablo A.; Meyer, Bruce D.; Mittag, Nikolas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We document the extent, nature, and consequences of survey errors in cash welfare and SNAP receipt in three major U …

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The Consumption, Income, and Well-Being of Single Mother Headed Families 25 Years After Welfare Reform

Han, Jeehoon; Meyer, Bruce D.; Sullivan, James X. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We investigate how material well-being has changed over time for single mother headed families--the primary group affected by welfare reform and other policy changes of the 1990s. We focus on consumption as well as other indicators including components of consumption, measures of housing...

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The Change in Poverty from 1995 to 2016 Among Single Parent Families

Corinth, Kevin; Meyer, Bruce D.; Wu, Derek - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper is the first to examine changes in poverty over time using a comprehensive set of linked survey and … Poverty. Using the Comprehensive Income Dataset (CID), we correct for measurement error in survey-reported incomes, focusing … by 62% over time, while it fell by only 45% using survey data alone. Moreover, survey-reported deep poverty among single …

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Changes in the Distribution of Economic Well-Being during the COVID-19 Pandemic : Evidence from Nationally Representative Consumption Data

Meyer, Bruce D.; Murphy, Connacher; Sullivan, James X. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE) and other data. This is the first work to study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on …

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