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The ifo Investment Survey asks firms in the German manufacturing sector about the importance of sales, technological …
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We use novel and unique survey data from Italy to shed light on key questions regarding the measurement of social …
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welfare. An appropriately weighted survey-based distribution of an acceptable measure of economic welfare need not be less …
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self-reported responses to subjective well-being (SWB) and stated preference (SP) survey questions to construct an index of …
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household expenditures? We study the sources of the relevant official statistics--the Current Population Survey (CPS), the … Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), and the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CEX)--and find that the answers depend …
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summarize the results of a household electrical appliance survey and describe how households in rural Kenya differ in terms of …
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education) measured in the survey or on spatial estimates (most often for zip codes) from the American Community Survey. We …
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Living standards measurement surveys require sustained attention for several hours. We quantify survey fatigue by … randomizing the order of questions in 2-3 hour-long in-person surveys. An additional hour of survey time increases the probability … categories such as assets or expenditures declines as the survey goes on, and this effect is sizeable for some categories: for …
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We use plant-level data from the US Census of Manufacturers to study the short and long run effects of temperature on manufacturing activity. We document that temperature shocks significantly increase energy costs and lower the productivity of small manufacturing plants, while large plants are...
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What drives change in a society's values? From Marx to modernization theory, scholars have identified a connection between structural transformation and social change. To understand how changes in a society's dominant mode of production affect its dominant values, we examine the case of the...
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