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Identification, characteristics and impact of faked interviews in surveys : an analysis by means of genuine fakes in the raw data of SOEP
Schräpler, Jörg-Peter; Wagner, Gert G. - 2003
To the best of our knowledge, most of the few methodological studies which analyze the impact of faked interviews on survey results are based on "artificial fakes" generated by project students in a "laboratory environment". In contrast, panel data provide a unique opportunity to identify data...
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Identification of attrition bias using different types of panel refreshments
Chadi, Adrian - 2016
Selective attrition out of longitudinal datasets is a concern for empirical researchers. This paper discusses a simple way to identify both direction and magnitude of potential sample bias in household panels. The idea is to exploit multiple types of simultaneous entries into the panel. The...
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Surveillance of chronic diseases : challenges and strategies for India
Mishra, Udaya S.; Irudaya Rajan, Sebastian; Joe, William; … - 2016
that needs enabling environment to come up with services under PPP. …
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Perception vs. experience : explaining differences in corruption measures using microdata
Gutmann, Jerg; Padovano, Fabio; Voigt, Stefan - 2019
Understanding corruption is at the heart of treating the dysfunctionality of many countries' public sectors. Yet, most corruption research suffers from one common problem: There is no "objective" measure of public-sector corruption for a cross-section of countries. Most studies on the...
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The panel of linked administrative data of CERS databank
Sebők, Anna - 2019
The Databank of the Centre for Economic and Regional Studies has established Admin3, the third round of the Panel of Administrative Data. The data source contains administrative data of the National Health Insurance Fund Administration, the Hungarian State Treasury, the National Tax and Customs...
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Baseline health and public healthcare costs five years on : a predictive analysis using biomarker data in a prospective household panel
Davillas, Apostolos; Pudney, Stephen E. - 2019
We investigate the utilisation of primary and secondary public healthcare services and the consequent public costs … years later, their utilisation of GP and hospital outpatient and inpatient services was observed. We develop an econometric … least 20% higher than comparable men, because of their greater utilisation of GP and outpatient services. There is a strong …
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Missing data in Imputed Highest Grade Completed in the 2015-2018 NBER CPS extracts
Hersch, Joni; Mendoza Lopez, Fernando; Shinall, … - 2019
In 2015, the Current Population Survey (CPS) eliminated three questions related to educational attainment. These questions are used by the NBER to calculate the variable, "Imputed Highest Grade Completed" (ihigrdc) in their Monthly Outgoing Rotation Group (MORG) extracts. Imputed Highest Grade...
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Policy uncertainty and information flows : evidence from pension reform expectations
Ciani, Emanuele; Delavande, Adeline; Etheridge, Ben; … - 2019
Subjective expectations about future policy play an important role in individuals' welfare. We examine how workers' expectations about pension reform vary with proximity to reforms, information cost, and aggregate information acquisition. We construct a new pan-European dataset of reform...
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GTAPINGAMS, version 9: multiregional and small open economy models with alternative demand systems
Lanz, Bruno; Rutherford, Thomas F. - 2016 - This version: November, 2016
This paper describes the implementation in GAMS of an economic equilibrium model based on the GTAP version 9 dataset. We call this model and the ancillary programming tools GTAPINGAMS, version 9. Relative to previous installments of GTAPINGAMS, an innovation in this model is that it can easily...
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An empirical investigation on dollarization and currency devaluation : a case study of Tanzania
Musoke, Zakia - 2017
prices of goods and services in dollar. In Tanzania, commercial banks have the power to open foreign currency deposit …
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