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We use survey data on an opt-in panel of around 2,500 US small businesses to assess the impact of COVID-19. We find a …
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We design and field an innovative survey of unemployment insurance (UI) recipients that yields new insights about wage …
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We provide a general framework for incorporating many types of micro data from summary statistics to full surveys of selected consumers into Berry, Levinsohn, and Pakes (1995)-style estimates of differentiated products demand systems. We extend best practices for BLP estimation in Conlon and...
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We find evidence suggesting that surveys of professional forecasters are biased by strategic incentives. First, we find that individual forecasts overreact to idiosyncratic information but underreact to common information. Second, we show that this bias is not present in forecasts data that is...
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This paper introduces a novel measure of consumer inflation expectations: We elicit and combine inflation forecasts across categories of personal consumption expenditure to form an aggregated measure of inflation expectations. Drawing on nearly 60,000 respondents, our data comprise the early...
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Analyses of self-reported-well-being (SWB) survey data may be confounded if people use response scales differently. We …
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of bilateral exports, a panel of data from 2006 through 2017, and an annual Gallup survey which asks people in up to 157 …
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We administer a newly-designed survey to a large panel of wealthy retail investors. The survey elicits beliefs that are …
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-year look-ahead horizon. In terms of question design, our key innovation is to let survey respondents freely select support … collection, we develop and field a new monthly panel Survey of Business Uncertainty. The SBU began in 2014 and now covers about 1 …
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Survey refusal in the Current Population Survey (CPS) has tripled over the last decade. This rise coincides with the … likely to participate in the survey when their preferred political party holds the White House. Using state and metro vote … on the day of the first Tea Party rally indicates that exposure to anti-survey rhetoric decreases refusal rates …
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