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The reliability of subjective well-being measures

Krueger, Alan B. (contributor); Schkade, David (contributor) - 2007

This paper studies the test-retest reliability of a standard self-reported life satisfaction measure and of affect measures collected from a diary method. The sample consists of 229 women who were interviewed on Thursdays, two weeks apart, in Spring 2005. The correlation of net affect (i.e.,...

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Item non-response and imputation of annual labor income in panel surveys from a cross-national perspective

Frick, Joachim R. (contributor); … - 2007

post-survey means to cope with this type of measurement error on prototypical analyses (earnings inequality, mobility and …

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How reliable are income data collected with a single question?

Micklewright, John (contributor); … - 2007

household income in one of the comparator surveys. Third, after imposing bands on comparator survey data, we measure the …. Disaggregation by gender proves fruitful in much of the analysis. -- Income data ; banding ; information loss ; Omnibus survey … ; British Social Attitudes survey …

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Validating the use of vignettes for subjective threshold scales

Soest, Arthur van; Delaney, Liam; Harmon, Colm; … - 2007

Comparing self-assessed indicators of subjective outcomes such as health, work disability, political efficacy, job satisfaction, etc. across countries or socio-economic groups is often hampered by the fact that different groups use systematically different response scales. Anchoring vignettes...

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Surveying migrant households : a comparison of census-based, snowball, and intercept point surveys/ David J. McKenzie; Johan Mistiaen

McKenzie, David J. (contributor); … - 2007

survey methods in collecting data from Japanese-Brazilian families, many of whom send migrants to Japan. The three surveys …) A snowball survey using Nikkei community groups to select the seeds; and 3) An intercept point survey collected at …

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The micro-foundations of employment systems : an empirical case study of Britain and France

Amossé, Thomas; Bryson, Alex; Forth, John; Petit, Héloïse - 2023

Building on existing studies of national employment systems, we take a multi-dimensional approach to comparative employment relations where the national level remains meaningful but which emphasises within-country dynamics and heterogeneity. Analysing nationally representative workplace surveys...

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Estimating coherency between survey data and incentivized experimental data

Belzil, Christian; Pernaudet, Julie; Poinas, François - 2021

of higher education financial aid using survey data obtained from a set of individuals, and can estimate the same … setting relying on incentivized choices, making the wrong decision can be costly. In the survey, the stakes are null and … weight to a specific set of determinants in the experiment and in the survey and that the valuations of financial aid are …

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Preference signaling and worker-firm matching: evidence from interview auctions

Laschever, Ron A.; Weinstein, Russell - 2021

We study whether there are improvements in worker-firm matching when employers and applicants can credibly signal their interest in a match. Using a detailed résumé dataset of more than 400 applicants from one university over five years, we analyze a matching process in which firms fill some...

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Job search during a pandemic recession: survey evidence from the Netherlands

Balgova, Maria; Trenkle, Simon; Zimpelmann, Christian; … - 2021

Netherlands (LISS) and complement the core survey with our own COVID-specific module, conducted in June 2020, surveying job search …

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Reported MPC in the presence of debt

Sala, Hector; Trivín, Pedro - 2021

We use information from the last wave of the Spanish Survey of Households Finance to study the influence of debt on the …

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