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This paper argues that satisfaction data from surveys are biased by varying participant attitudes toward the interview itself. In this manner, interviewees in a German panel study report lower life satisfaction when there is evidence of transient influences like aversion. The empirical findings...
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Many promising efforts in the social sciences aim to measure future outcomes (such as wages or health outcomes) given some base level of human capital or ability. They typically fail to recognize the proxies for human capital are all measured with error, creating bias in regression analysis....
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This paper argues that satisfaction data from surveys are biased by varying participant attitudes toward the interview itself. In this manner, interviewees in a German panel study report lower life satisfaction when there is evidence of transient influences like aversion. The empirical findings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592555
This paper investigates the accuracy of recall data by comparing administrative records with retrospective, self-reported survey responses to income and asset questions for a sample of self-employed households from coastal India. It finds that the magnitude of the recall error increases over...
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We investigate the common assumption in applied research that reporting errors are negligible in variables where there is no clear incentive for misreporting. Using major medical operations, we find high misreporting rates, but the coefficients of their predictors remain unbiased.
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-based imputation procedures lead to inconsistent estimates. We offer an easily-implemented correction and correct asymptotic standard …
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-based imputation procedures lead to inconsistent estimates. We offer an easily-implemented correction and correct asymptotic standard …
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-based imputation procedures lead to inconsistent estimates. We offer an easily-implemented correction and correct asymptotic standard …
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-based imputation procedures lead to inconsistent estimates. We offer an easily-implemented correction and correct asymptotic standard …
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-based imputation procedures lead to inconsistent estimates. We offer an easily-implemented correction and correct asymptotic standard …
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