Surveys that are designed to measure subjective states (e.g., happiness) typically generate ordinal data. A fundamental … distributional assumptions. In this paper, we propose using survey response times to solve that problem. The key assumption of our …) can be compared across groups, even without making distributional assumptions. We apply our method to an online survey …

Surveys are an important tool in economics and in the social sciences more broadly. However, methods used to analyse … ordinal survey data (e.g., ordered probit) rely on strong and often unjustified distributional assumptions. In this paper, we … propose using survey response times to solve that problem. Our main identifying assumption is that individual response time is …