In this paper I investigate response bias in survey data on annual driving mileage and evaluate the performance of a proposed remedy, Orbit. Individuals systematically exaggerate their deviation from the sample average, and using the self-reported data leads to misleading estimates of the income...

Some public health officials discourage smokers from using electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS, or “e-cigarettes”) as a cessation aid because ENDS use and smoking are positively correlated. Such correlation does not imply that the causal treatment effect of ENDS use on cessation from...

This paper investigates response bias in survey data on annual driving mileage and evaluates the performance of an econometric remedy proposed in the literature, Orbit. There are three contributions in this paper. I first discuss pseudo-precision bias, caused by asking respondents to quantify...