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policy and research, the accurate design, implementation, and analysis of survey data has become paramount. In this paper, we … examine the impact of the gender of the interviewer on survey responses in Latin America and the Caribbean, both individually … and in the aggregate, using data from the LAPOP surveys (2012-2018). We also present a formal model that illustrates how …
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Economic policies are generally formulated on the basis of data available in real time, which might subsequently be revised. Implicitly, the possibility of data revisions creates an element of uncertainty around the very same data driving policy decisions. Given that such uncertainty could be...
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Time series models are often fitted to the data without preliminary checks for stability of the mean and variance, conditions that may not hold in much economic and financial data, particularly over long periods. Ignoring such shifts may result in fitting models with spurious dynamics that lead...
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This paper examines measurement error in the share of income going to the top 1% (and other subgroups) that comes from estimation of the denominator. We compare two approaches. First, the default ‘external’ approach used in the current literature, which relies on different data sources for...
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inequality based on recently available surveys. We contrast our results with the literature, with a handful of state …
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