This paper examines the theory of the estimation of econometric models and Hausman tests with sampling weights. The Manski-Lerman weighted conditional MLE is emphasized because of its popularity in econometric estimation with sampling weights. It is an inefficient alternative to full information...

Although researchers using a complex sample survey data need not understand the in-depth details of the process generating the survey weights, questions about why, when, and how to use weighting and which statistical packages to use are the most common during data analysis. Unfortunately,...

The Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) requires that federal agencies obtain OMB approval before requesting most types of information from the public. Among other requirements, the PRA requires that agencies desiring to conduct surveys provide OMB with a variety of information about the study design...

A well-known difficulty in survey research is that respondents' answers to questions can depend on arbitrary features of a survey's design, such as the wording of questions or the ordering of answers. We develop an empirical framework for analyzing survey data characterized by such framing...

Economists who use survey or administrative data for inferences regarding a population may want to combine information obtained from two or more samples drawn from the population. This is the case if there is no single sample that contains all relevant variables. A special case occurs if...

In 1979, the Danish mathematician Georg Rasch recounted a 1959 visit with his former teacher, and later economics Nobel Prize winner, Ragnar Frisch. At this time, Frisch prompted Rasch to formalize his work in a separability theorem. Previously unnoted is that Frisch's close colleague, Irving...

This collection of papers analyzes the versatility and predictive power of survey expectations data in asset pricing and macroeconomic forecasting. The first paper, Using Sentiment Surveys to Predict GDP Growth and Stock Returns sheds new light on the question of whether or not sentiment...

The assessment of the effects of a parking policy is a very complex problem and requires the definition of methodologies and interpretative schemes which can not ignore the urban structure of the city in which the parking policy is applied. Concerning this, the study defines an interpretative...

In 1959, Ragnar Frisch prompted Georg Rasch to formalise a separability theorem that continues today to serve as the basis of a wide range of theoretical and applied developments in psychological and social measurement. Previously unnoted are the influences on Rasch exerted by Frisch’s...

This study sheds new light on the question of whether or not sentiment surveys, and the expectations derived from them, are relevant to forecasting economic growth and stock returns, and whether they contain information that is orthogonal to macroeconomic and financial data. I examine 16...