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Measuring Firm-Level Innovation Using Short Questionnaires : Evidence from an Experiment
Cirera, X. - 2017
Little is known about innovation in developing countries, partly because of the lack of comparable and reliable data. Collecting data on firm-level innovation is challenging because of the subjective definition of what determines an innovation, a problem that is exacerbated in developing...
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Same Question But Different Answer : Experimental Evidence on Questionnaire Design's Impact on Poverty Measured by Proxies
Kilic, Talip - 2020
of the questionnaire are altered? If not, what would be the implications for proxy-based poverty measurement? Relying on … counterpart that, in a prior survey round, would have informed the prediction model for a proxy-based poverty measurement exercise …-based poverty measurement should be piloted, prior to implementation, in parallel with the longer questionnaire from which they have …
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The Entertaining Way to Behavioral Change : Fighting HIV with Mtv
Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2019
This paper tests the effectiveness of an entertainment education television series, MTV Shuga, aimed at providing …, where young viewers were exposed to MTV Shuga or a placebo television series. Among those exposed to MTV Shuga, the trial …
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Sex, Lies, and Surveys : The Role of Interviewer Characteristics
Koroknay-Palicz, Tricia - 2019
This paper examines how easily observable interviewer characteristics, such as gender and physical attractiveness, and more difficult to observe characteristics, such as attitudes and beliefs, affect adolescent girls' disclosure of sexual behavior during a baseline survey for an adolescent girls...
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Identifying Gazelles : Expert Panels vs. Surveys as a Means to Identify Firms with Rapid Growth Potential
Fafchamps, Marcel - 2017
A business plan competition is conducted to test whether survey instruments or panel judges are able to identify the fastest growing firms. Participants submitted six- to eight-page business plans and defended them before a three- or four-judge panel. Applicants are surveyed shortly after they...
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Doing the Survey Two-Step : The Effects of Reticence on Estimates of Corruption in Two-Stage Survey Questions
Karalashvili, Nona - 2017
This paper develops a structural approach for modeling how respondents answer survey questions and uses it to estimate the proportion of respondents who are reticent in answering corruption questions, as well as the extent to which reticent behavior biases down conventional estimates of...
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Interviewer Effects in Subjective Survey Questions : Evidence from Timor-Leste
Himelein, Kristen - 2017
There is an inherent tension between traditional norms and survey protocols for quantitative data collected in the developing world. Unexpected interactions between the interviewer and respondent can lead to interviewer effects in the data, particularly in the case of subjective or sensitive...
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Radio Frequency (Un)Identification : Results from a Proof-of-Concept Trial of the Use of RFID Technology to Measure Microenterprise Turnover in Sri Lanka
de Mel, Suresh - 2017
Accurate measurement of stock levels, turnover, and profitability in microenterprises in developing countries is … concludes that this technology is currently unsuitable for improving stock measurement in microenterprises, except perhaps for a …
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Misunderestimating Corruption
Kraay, Aart - 2017
Estimates of the extent of corruption rely largely on self-reports of individuals, business managers, and government officials. Yet it is well known that survey respondents are reticent to tell the truth about activities to which social and legal stigma are attached, implying a downward bias in...
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Eliciting Probabilistic Expectations with Visual Aids in Developing Countries : How Sensitive are Answers to Variations in Elicitation Design?
Delavande, Adeline - 2017
Eliciting subjective probability distributions in developing countries is often based on visual aids such as beans to represent probabilities and intervals on a sheet of paper to represent the support. The authors conducted an experiment in India that tested the sensitivity of elicited...
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