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Income and Poverty in 2002: The View from Five Surveys.

Czajka, John L. - Mathematica Policy Research - 2009

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Exploiting Spatial Dependence to Improve Measurement of Neighborhood Social Processes.

Savitz, Natalya Verbitsky; Raudenbush, Stephen W. - Mathematica Policy Research - 2009

A number of recent studies have used surveys of neighborhood informants and direct observation of city streets to …

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Large Numbers of Estimates for Small Areas.

Schirm, Allen L.; Zaslavsky, Alan M.; Czajka, John L. - Mathematica Policy Research - 2000

Describes two applications of a method for reweighting a survey or administrative records database to borrow strength and improve the precision of state estimates. The first is estimating the numbers and characteristics of children without health insurance. The second is microsimulation of...

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Conducting Surveys with Proxies: Evaluating a Standardized Measure to Determine Need

Skidmore, Sara; Barrett, Kirsten; Wright, Debra; … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2012

This working paper describes a three-question telephone screener used with the National Beneficiary Survey to standardize interviewers' assessments of whether sample members had the capacity to complete a survey or if a proxy was needed. Results show that interviewer training on how to use the...

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The effects of interest rate increases on consumers' inflation expectations: The roles of informedness and compliance

Knotek, Edward S.; Mitchell, James; Pedemonte, Mathieu; … - 2024

emphasize the importance of measuring both respondents information sets and their compliance with treatment when using RCTs in …

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Survey responses on desired fertility in patriarchal societies: Community norms vs. individual views

Kazenin, Konstantin I.; Kozlov, Vladimir - In: Comparative Population Studies (CPoS) 45 (2020), pp. 201-228

high authority of senior generations and a low level of women's autonomy. In such communities, female respondents might …

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Recent advances in studies of news consumption

Capozza, Francesco; Haaland, Ingar; Roth, Christopher; … - 2022

We review recent advances in the literature on news consumption. We first provide an overview of different empirical techniques to measure news consumption, including browser data, TV viewership data, and survey-based measures. We also discuss the pros and cons of these different techniques. We...

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Assessing direct healthcare costs when restricted to self-reported data: A scoping review

Jabakhanji, Samira B.; Sorensen, Jan; Valentelyte, Gintare - In: Health Economics Review 11 (2021) 1, pp. 1-15

utilisation data collected from patient-reported surveys. This scoping review explored the availability, use and methodological …: Population health surveys were identified from Irish data repositories and details were collated in an inventory to inform the …-ScR guidelines were used for reporting. Results: In total, 27 surveys were identified containing varying details of healthcare …

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Finite- and Large-Sample Inference for Ranks using Multinomial Data with an Application to Ranking Political Parties

Wilhelm, Daniel; Mogstad, Magne; Shaikh, Azeem - 2021

surveys or polls about political attitudes. Since these rankings are computed using estimates of the share of support rather … territories with few survey respondents and/or with parties that are chosen by only a small share of the survey respondents. In …

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Measuring what is top of mind

Haaland, Ingar; Roth, Christopher; Stantcheva, Stefanie; … - 2024

We survey the recent literature in economics measuring what is on top of people's minds using open-ended questions. We first provide an overview of studies in political economy, macroeconomics, finance, labor economics, and behavioral economics that have employed such measurement. We next...

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