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We evaluate how nonresponse affects conclusions drawn from survey data and consider how researchers can reliably test … and correct for nonresponse bias. To do so, we examine a survey on labor market conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic … that used randomly assigned financial incentives to encourage participation. We link the survey data to administrative data …
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Women may under-report intimate partner violence (IPV) in surveys due to a variety of social and psychological factors. To understand if anonymized interviewing can allay this concern, we conduct a measurement experiment in rural Liberia and Malawi in which women were asked IPV questions via...
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experiments within surveys, rather than just relying on observational survey data. We then outline the most commonly used …
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evidence on the frequency of nominal wage adjustment using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) for …
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We introduce the interview assignment problem, which generalizes the one-to-one matching model of Gale and Shapley (1962) by introducing a stage of costly information acquisition. Firms learn preferences over workers via costly interviews. Even if all firms and workers conduct the same number of...
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We analyze a national sample of Americans with respect to their debt literacy, financial experiences, and their judgments about the extent of their indebtedness. Debt literacy is measured by questions testing knowledge of fundamental concepts related to debt and by self-assessed financial...
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Estimates of volunteering in the United States vary greatly from survey to survey and do not show the decline over time … survey participation, in particular the propensity of people who do volunteer work to respond to surveys at higher rates than … data from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) -- the sample for which is drawn from Current Population Survey (CPS …
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Several papers study the effect of trust by using the answer to the World Values Survey (WVS) question "Generally …
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using responses to hypothetical income gambles in the Health and Retirement Study. In contrast to most survey measures that … produce an ordinal metric, this paper shows how to construct a cardinal proxy for the risk tolerance of each survey respondent …
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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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