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 …

The time series nature of repeated surveys is seldom taken into account. The few studies that take this into account …. I present a statistical model of repeated surveys and construct a computationally simple estimator based on the Kalman …

This paper presents an approach to reconciling household surveys and national accounts data. The problem is how to use … the information provided by the national accounts data to re-estimate the household weights used in the survey so that the … survey results are consistent with the aggregate data. The estimation approach uses an estimation criterion based on an …