a randomized household survey experiment implemented in Malawi, this study finds that observationally equivalent as well … counterpart that, in a prior survey round, would have informed the prediction model for a proxy-based poverty measurement exercise …

This research note investigates the impact of phone reminders on response rates in the context of a web-based survey in … an international organization, the World Bank. After randomly assigning treatment to 248 survey participants, the study … World Bank surveyors to turn to sample surveys more often, reducing survey overload in the institution …

behavior during a baseline survey for an adolescent girls program in Liberia. The study finds that girls are more likely to …

This paper develops a structural approach for modeling how respondents answer survey questions and uses it to estimate … behavior biases down conventional estimates of corruption. The context is a common two-step survey question, first inquiring …

There is an inherent tension between traditional norms and survey protocols for quantitative data collected in the …

reads to physical stock counts and to survey responses. There are three main findings. First, current RFID-technology is … of survey responses and physical stock-takes shows much higher accuracy for survey measures. As a result, the study …

officials. Yet it is well known that survey respondents are reticent to tell the truth about activities to which social and … legal stigma are attached, implying a downward bias in survey-based estimates of corruption. This paper develops a method to … combination of conventional and random-response survey questions. The responses to these different types of questions reflect …

randomized survey experiment in Tanzania focusing on two survey aspects: different questionnaire design to classify children work …. Proxy reports do not differ significantly from a child?s self-report. Further analysis demonstrates that survey design …

paper contributes to the literature by presenting the results of an experiment aiming to identify the survey instrument that … multi-topic, firm-level survey does not provide an accurate picture of firm-level innovation and tends to overestimate …

A business plan competition is conducted to test whether survey instruments or panel judges are able to identify the … growth potential. A survey measure of ability correlates strongly with future growth, but the panel scores add to predictive … power even after controlling for ability and other survey variables. The survey questions have more power to explain the …