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How Survey Design Affects Inference Regarding Health Perceptions and Outcomes

Exterkate, Anneke - 2011

This paper considers the role of survey design and question phrasing in evaluating the subjective health assessment responses using the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset. A unique feature of this dataset is that respondents were twice asked during the survey to...

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Construction of the Earnings and Benefits File (EBF) for Use With the Health and Retirement Survey

Mitchell, Olivia - 1996

Analysts using the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS) often require information on earnings, labor market attachment, and social security benefits in order to better understand the factors affecting retirement and well-being at older ages. To this end, several derived variables were constructed...

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Retirement Research Using the Health and Retirement Survey

Gustman, Alan L. - 1994

This paper highlights unanswered research questions in the economics of retirement, and shows how these issues can be addressed using the new Health and Retirement Survey (HRS). Unique features of the survey are described including administrative records on earnings and social security benefits,...

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A New Mechanism to Alleviate the Crises of Confidence in Science-With An Application to the Public Goods Game

Butera, Luigi - 2020

Creation of empirical knowledge in economics has taken a dramatic turn in the past few decades. One feature of the new research landscape is the nature and extent to which scholars generate data. Today, in nearly every field the experimental approach plays an increasingly crucial role in testing...

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No Ground Truth? : No Problem : Improving Administrative Data Linking Using Active Learning and a Little Bit of Guile

Tahamont, Sarah; Jelveh, Zubin; McNeill, Melissa; Yan, Shi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

While linking records across large administrative datasets ["big data"] has the potential to revolutionize empirical social science research, many administrative data files do not have common identifiers and are thus not designed to be linked to others. To address this problem, researchers have...

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The Realities Of Disclosure Risks In The Age Of Dark Patterns And Big Data

Sarmiento, Ramon Abraham A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper explores the realities of disclosure risks in the current big data landscape, examining implications for individuals, society, and the evolving ethical landscape. One these realities is pervasive use of dark patterns in data collection. Dark patterns are user interfaces crafted to...

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The Effect of Expected Income on Individual Migration Decisions

Kennan, John - 2003

The paper develops a tractable econometric model of optimal migration, focusing on expected income as the main economic … influence on migration. The model improves on previous work in two respects: it covers optimal sequences of location decisions … panel data from the NLSY on white males with a high school education. Our main conclusion is that interstate migration …

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How Social Processes Distort Measurement : The Impact of Survey Nonresponse on Estimates of Volunteer Work

Abraham, Katharine G. - 2008

Estimates of volunteering in the United States vary greatly from survey to survey and do not show the decline over time common to other measures of social capital. We argue that these anomalies are caused by the social processes that determine survey participation, in particular the propensity...

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Private but Misunderstood? Evidence on Measuring Intimate Partner Violence via Self-Interviewing in Rural Liberia and Malawi

Park, David Sungho; Aggarwal, Shilpa; Jeong, Dahyeon; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Women may under-report intimate partner violence (IPV) in surveys due to a variety of social and psychological factors. To understand if anonymized interviewing can allay this concern, we conduct a measurement experiment in rural Liberia and Malawi in which women were asked IPV questions via...

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Ideological Bias in Estimates of the Impact of Immigration

Borjas, George J.; Breznau, Nathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

When studying policy-relevant topics, researchers' policy preferences may shape the design, execution, analysis, and interpretation of results. Detection of such bias is challenging because the research process itself is not normally part of a controlled experimental setting. Our analysis...

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