In the 2008 Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) Pretest, the factorial survey method was tested for the first time for use in the SOEP longitudinal study. In this paper, we describe the construction and application of the vignette module, which has its origins in the field of justice research and...

In the 2008 Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) Pretest, the factorial survey method was tested for the first time for use in the SOEP longitudinal study. In this paper, we describe the construction and application of the vignette module, which has its origins in the field of justice research and...

In the 2008 Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) Pretest, the factorial survey method was tested for the first time for use in the SOEP longitudinal study. In this paper, we describe the construction and application of the vignette module, which has its origins in the field of justice research and...

In the 2008 Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) Pretest, the factorial survey method was tested for the first time for use in the SOEP longitudinal study. In this paper, we describe the construction and application of the vignette module, which has its origins in the field of justice research and...

Two previous articles proposed and validated a continuous measure of the material standard of living as concerns basic household infrastructure (housing, water, energy and sanitation). The scale is based on Principal Component Analysis of a large number of variables derived from census...

In a previous paper a quantitative scale was developed, and applied to Bolivia, to measure some basic aspects of the material standard of living, namely those related to the physical infrastructure of households, involving shelter and basic services as measured in population censuses. Using data...

In the context of analysis of Millennium Goals and Human Development in Bolivia a synthetic measure of household infrastructure was developed. The measure was constructed applying factor analysis to a large number of census indicators concerning shelter, living space, water supply, energy and...

In this paper, we propose an alternative methodology to capture the impact of the inequality factors on poverty by decomposing the traditional Foster-Greer-Thorbecke index. We introduce a frame of decomposition of the Gini coefficient, including the overlapping effects. Our method disentangles...

In the 2008 Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) Pretest, the factorial survey method was tested for the first time for use in the SOEP longitudinal study. In this paper, we describe the construction and application of the vignette module, which has its origins in the field of justice research and...

We extend the Berry, Levinsohn and Pakes (BLP, 1995) random coefficients discretechoice demand model, which underlies much recent empirical work in IO. We add interactive fixed effects in the form of a factor structure on the unobserved product characteristics. The interactive fixed effects can...