This paper studies the effects of day care exposure on behavioral disorders and mental and physical health at various ages during childhood. We draw on a unique set of merged population register data from Sweden over the period 1999-2008. This includes merged information at the individual level...

We develop and test an economic model of the cognitive and non-cognitive foundations of survey item-response behavior. We show that a summary measure of response behaviour - the survey item-response rate (SIRR) - varies with cognitive and less so with non-cognitive abilities, has a strong...

Berechnungen auf Basis des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) zeigen, dass sich nach der Einführung des Mindestlohns in Deutschland im Jahr 2015 das Wachstum der Stundenlöhne für die anspruchsberechtigten Beschäftigten gerade im unteren Bereich der Stundenlohnverteilung beschleunigt hat. So...

The Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) provides information about house-hold wealth (real and financial assets as well as liabilities) from 15 Euro-countries around the year 2010 (first wave). The survey will be the central dataset in this topic in the future. However, several...

In der Digitalwirtschaft zielen viele Geschäftsmodelle auf das Erheben von Daten, insbesondere personenbezogenen Daten, ab. Die enormen Datenmengen geben jedoch Anlass zur Diskussion. Werden die Nutzer ausgespäht und Datenmissbrauch betrieben, oder basiert das Geschäftsmodell darauf,...

In this paper, we compare experimentally measured individual risk attitudes and survey-based risk items for rural households in the province of Dak Lak in Southern Vietnam. In particular, we test whether the survey-based measure can be validated by a risk experiment among different ethnic...

This paper provides survey evidence on firms’ subjective uncertainty about future sales growth from a new representative panel data set of the German manufacturing sector. The main finding is that uncertainty reflects change: firms report more subjective uncertainty after either high or low...

We report results of a survey among active forecasters of the German business cycle. Using data for 82 respondents from 37 different institutions, we investigate what models and theories forecasters subscribe to and find that they are pronounced conservative in the sense, that they...

Web surveys have become a standard, and often preferred, mode of survey administration in part because the technology underlying them is much more adaptable. Survey designers often use these technical features to help guide respondents through a survey, by incorporating automated skips, for...

Berufsklassifikationen sind anhand der ausgeübten Tätigkeit gegliedert und entsprechend wird auch in Umfragen zur Erfassung des Berufs nach der "beruflichen Tätigkeit" gefragt. Obwohl sich diese Abfrage auf die Klassifikation bezieht, wird bei der Kodierung von Antworten nur selten auf die...