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A large literature uses parental evaluations of child health status to provide evidence on the socioeconomic determinants of health. If how parents perceive health questions differs by income or education level, then estimates of the socioeconomic gradient are likely to be biased and potentially...
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We combine a survey and an experiment with real pay-out among Peking University students to measure and validate … individual risk attitudes. The experiment involves choosing between a cash payment and playing a lottery. The survey questions … parental income, risk attitudes are domain-specific. Correlations between survey measures and experimental measures, are in the …
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We analyse response patterns to an important survey of school children, exploiting rich auxiliary information on … survey aims to measure. The survey is the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), which sets response …
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participation or non-participation in the Internet survey leads shows that these processes are selective in selecting subjects who … Internet survey as an alternative to a student pool in the laboratory if the ambition is to use the experiments to draw …
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We propose a novel selectivity correction procedure to deal with survey attrition, at the crossroads of the "Heckit … models, we use information on the number of attempts that were made to obtain response to the survey from each individual who …
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This note uses a unique dataset for Germany which contains interviewer-rated physical appearance assessments of survey …
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post-survey means to cope with this type of measurement error on prototypical analyses (earnings inequality, mobility and … cross-country differences with respect to the factors driving INR: survey-related aspects as well as indicators accounting …
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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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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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Earnings nonresponse in the Current Population Survey is roughly 30% in the monthly surveys and 20% in the annual March … survey. Even if nonresponse is random, severe bias attaches to wage equation coefficient estimates on attributes not matched …
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