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Effectiveness of data correction rules in process-produced data : the case of educational attainment
Kruppe, Thomas; Matthes, Britta; Unger, Stefanie - 2014
reliability and the effectiveness of different correction rules for information about educational degrees as reported in German …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010401768
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Trouble in the tails? : what we know about earnings nonresponse thirty years after Lillard, Smith, and Welch
Bollinger, Christopher R.; Hirsch, Barry T.; Hokayem, … - 2018
Earnings nonresponse in household surveys is widespread, yet there is limited knowledge of how nonresponse biases earnings measures. We examine the consequences of nonresponse on earnings gaps and inequality using Current Population Survey individual records linked to administrative earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011892612
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Trouble in the Tails? What We Know about Earnings Nonresponse Thirty Years After Lillard, Smith, and Welch
Bollinger, Christopher R. - 2018
Earnings nonresponse in household surveys is widespread, yet there is limited knowledge of how nonresponse biases earnings measures. We examine the consequences of nonresponse on earnings gaps and inequality using Current Population Survey individual records linked to administrative earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906992
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Trouble in the Tails? What We Know About Earnings Nonresponse Thirty Years after Lillard, Smith, and Welch
Bollinger, Christopher R. - 2018
Earnings nonresponse in household surveys is widespread, yet there is limited knowledge of how nonresponse biases earnings measures. We examine the consequences of nonresponse on earnings gaps and inequality using Current Population Survey individual records linked to administrative earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912743
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Estimating the Value of a Statistical Life : The Importance of Omitted Variables and Publication Bias
Ashenfelter, Orley; Greenstone, Michael - 2005
In this paper we show that omitted variables and publication bias lead to severely biased estimates of the value of a statistical life. Although our empirical results are obtained in the context of a study of choices about road safety, we suspect that the same issues plague the estimation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014073197
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Do People Mean What They Say? Implications for Subjective Survey Data
Bertrand, Marianne; Mullainathan, Sendhil - 2003
Many surveys contain a wealth of subjective questions that are at first glance rather exciting. Examples include "How important is leisure time to you?" "How satisfied are you with yourself?"; or "How satisfied are you with your work?" Yet despite easy availability, this is one data source that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014036144
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Measurement error in education and growth regressions
Portela, Miguel; Alessie, Rob; Teulings, Coen N. - 2005
The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement error. This paper analyses the effect of this measurement error on GDP regressions. There is a systematic difference in the education level between census data and observations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335189
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Are you what you consume? : impact of food, soft drinks, and coffee on cognitive and non-cognitive test scores
Sohnesen, Thomas Pave - 2019
Cognitive and non-cognitive tests are key factors in many aspects of economics, especially within labour market analysis. Non-cognitive tests and personality traits are increasingly used, as these are found to be as critical as cognitive abilities for labour market outcomes, while they might be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161346
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Item non-response and imputation of annual labor income in panel surveys from a cross-national perspective
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2007
, Australian HILDA) we investigate a) the selectivity of item non-response (INR) and b) the impact of imputation as a prominent … harmonization of (income) data production as well as of imputation strategies across surveys. All three panels make use of … longitudinal information in their respective imputation procedures, however, there are marked differences in the implementation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011630557
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Identifying the returns to lying when the truth is unobserved
Hu, Yingyao (contributor); Lewbel, Arthur (contributor) - 2007 - Rev.
Consider an observed binary regressor D and an unobserved binary variable D*, both of which affect some other variable Y. This paper considers nonparametric identification and estimation of the effect of D on Y , conditioning on D* = 0. For example, suppose Y is a person's wage, the unobserved D...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003735947