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This paper uses a new administrative dataset of students at a large university matched to courses and instructors to analyze the importance of teacher quality at the postsecondary level. Instructors are matched to both objective and subjective characteristics of teacher quality to estimate the...
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Conclusions: Clients' median willingness to pay for drug rehabilitation fell short of the average program costs of $82 per week, which reinforces the need for continued subsidization as drug treatment has high positive externalities. Clients will pay more for higher rates of treatment success...
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The 2004 Global Labor Survey (GLS) is an Internet-based survey that seeks to measure de facto labor practices in …
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-designed survey, we find that most respondents express a strong desire to be well informed on economic policy issues, and that …
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In the experimental module of the AHEAD 1995 data, the sample is randomly split into respondents who get an open-ended question on the amount of total family consumption - with follow-up unfolding brackets (of the form: is consumption $X or more?) for those who answer don't know' or refuse' -...
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Item non-response in household survey data on economic variables such as income, assets or consumption is a well …
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We propose a new method to design a short survey measure of a complex concept such as women's agency. The approach … combines mixed-methods data collection and machine learning. We select the best survey questions based on how strongly … candidate questions. This approach of selecting survey questions based on their statistical correspondence to coded qualitative …
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Comparing self-reports to administrative data records on diagnosis and prescription drug use, we find that survey … about prescription drug use. Survey respondents are significantly less likely to under-report other conditions such as …
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We use a variant of the Implicit Association Test (IAT) to examine individuals' implicit attitudes towards various ethnic groups. Using a population from the Democratic Republic of Congo, we find that the IAT measures show evidence of an implicit bias in favor of one's own ethnicity. Individuals...
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rates declined sharply. Survey response rates and top income shares are then considered in tandem with coverage rates. Falls …This paper presents a comparative assessment of the performance of the household expenditure survey programs in … Australia, Canada, the UK and US. Cross-country and time series variation in survey methodology and experience is used to assess …
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