Analyses of self-reported-well-being (SWB) survey data may be confounded if people use response scales differently. We …

of bilateral exports, a panel of data from 2006 through 2017, and an annual Gallup survey which asks people in up to 157 …

We administer a newly-designed survey to a large panel of wealthy retail investors. The survey elicits beliefs that are …

-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 …

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 …

Motivated by the observation that survey expectations of stock returns are inconsistent with rational return … pricing literature are consistent with the survey evidence. We empirically test (1) the notion that survey forecasts … constitute rational but risk-neutral forecasts of future returns, and (2) the notion that survey forecasts are ambiguity averse …

nation-wide survey among retail investors to elicit their responses to an exhaustive list of trading motives. By merging … survey responses with account-level transaction data, we validate survey responses with actual trading behaviors and compare … the power of survey-based and transaction-based measures of trading motives. A horse race among survey-based trading …

data. We ask survey respondents what they had in mind regarding (i)-(iii) when answering commonly used--life satisfaction …

Measurement errors are often a large source of bias in survey data. Lack of knowledge of the determinants of such … respondent's degree of cooperation with the survey overall. We provide evidence on how survey design choices affect reporting … errors. Our findings help survey users to gauge the reliability of their data and to devise estimation strategies that can …

This paper illustrates the design and use of open-ended survey questions as a way of eliciting people's first …