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Identification problems in personality psychology

Borghans, Lex; Golsteyn, Bart; Heckman, James J.; … - 2011

This paper discusses and illustrates identification problems in personality psychology. The measures used by psychologists to infer traits are based on behaviors, broadly defined. These behaviors are produced from multiple traits interacting with incentives in situations. In general, measures...

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Does it matter who responded to the survey? Trends in the US gender earnings gap revisited

Lee, Jungmin; Lee, Sokbae - 2011

their framework to consider measurement error due to the use of proxy/representative respondents. First, we document a … reduction in the gender gap can be smaller than what the estimates without taking into account the measurement error might … suggest. We conclude that a careful validation study would be necessary to ascertain the magnitude of the spurious measurement …

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Two economists' musings on the stability of locus of control

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Schurer, Stefanie - 2011

Empirical studies of the role of non-cognitive skills in driving economic behavior often rely heavily on the assumption that these skills are stable over the relevant time frame. We analyze the change in a specific non-cognitive skill, i.e. locus of control, in order to directly assess the...

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Measuring vulnerability: The director's cut

Ligon, Ethan; Schechter, Laura - 2002

Traditional poverty measures neglect several important dimensions of household welfare. In this paper we construct a measure of ‘vulnerability’ which allows us to quantify the welfare loss associated with poverty as well as the loss associated with any of a variety of different sources of...

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Conceptual and measurement issues in poverty analysis

Thorbecke, Erik - 2004

the poverty line across time and countries; (4) The quantitative vs. qualitative approach to poverty measurement; and (5 …

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The rise or fall of world inequality: A superious controversy?

Capéau, Bart; Decoster, André - 2004

scholars in the field of economic inequality measurement developed methods to estimate empirically the distribution of welfare …

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Measuring vulnerability to poverty

Kamanou, Gisele; Morduch, Jonathan - 2002

measurement ; Côte d’Ivoire …

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Who's in first? A regional development index for the People's Republic of China's provinces

Wang, Xiaolu - 2007

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Child malnutrition as a poverty indicator: An evaluation in the context of different development interventions in Indonesia

Setboonsarng, Sununtar - 2005

There is no international consensus on what poverty is and how it should be measured. The most commonly used poverty indicator, income level, is limited as it ignores the multidimensional character of poverty. Because the choice of an indicator reflects societal values and developmental goals,...

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Reaching the poor with poverty projects: What is the evidence on social returns?

Weiss, John - 2004

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