Biancotti, Claudia; D'Alessio, Giovanni; Neri, Andrea - In: Review of Income and Wealth 54 (2008) 3, pp. 466-493
This paper is aimed at evaluating the incidence of measurement error in the Bank of Italy's Survey of Household Income and Wealth (SHIW). In the case of time-invariant variables, we assess the degree of inconsistency of answers given by panel households in subsequent survey waves. For quantities...