Comparing self-assessed indicators of subjective outcomes such as health, work disability, political efficacy, job satisfaction, etc. across countries or socio-economic groups is often hampered by the fact that different groups use systematically different response scales. Anchoring vignettes have been introduced as an effective tool to correct for such differences. This paper develops an integ...

We consider statistical inference for regression when data are grouped into clusters, with regression model errors independent across clusters but correlated within clusters. Examples include data on individuals with clustering on village or region or other category such as industry, and state-year di erences-in-di erences studies with clustering on state. In such settings default standard erro...

Validating the Use of Vignettes for Subjective Threshold Scales Comparing self-assessed indicators of subjective outcomes such as health, work disability, political efficacy, job satisfaction, etc. across countries or socio-economic groups is often hampered by the fact that different groups use systematically different response scales. Anchoring vignettes have been introduced as an effective to...

Who Is Coming to the Artefactual Field Experiment? Participation Bias among Chinese Rural Migrants In this paper, we compare participants in an artefactual field experiment in urban China with the survey population of migrants from which they were recruited. The experimental participants were more educated, more likely to lend money to friends, and worked fewer hours than the general population...

This study evaluates the linkage of the ALWA survey with administrative labor market data from the German Federal Employment Agency. Exact, probabilistic or manual matches could be found for 86% of those respondents who consented to the linkage. Both the consent bias and the selectivity in linkage success are comprehensively examined based on survey and paradata. The results are informative for...

11 Many authors have discussed an apparent shift to a new employment contract characterized 12 by less commitment between employer and employee, and closer ties between wages within the 13 enterprise and those in the external labor market. We study the issue of when people in the US 14 and Canada feel pay cuts are fair. In contrast to much previous discussion, we find no evidence 15 of increasi...

Applied welfare analyses of redistributive systems nowadays benefit from powerful taxbenefit microsimulation programs combined with administrative data. Arguably, most of the distributional studies of that kind focus on social welfare defined as a function – typically inequality or poverty indices – of household equivalized income. In parallel, economic research has made considerable progress i...

This paper has two goals. First, to provide an accurate characterisation of the new small firm in Scotland by reference to markets, finance, costs, business strategy, human capital, internal organisation and technical change. Second, to use these same features to discover salient differences between small firms which either survive or close, two or three years after inception. The empirical evi...

Child Labor Variation by Type of Respondent: Evidence from a Large-Scale Study This study uses a nationally representative survey to analyze a key survey design decision in child labor measurement: self-reporting versus proxy interviewing. The child/proxy disagreement affects 20 percent of the sample, which translates into a 17.1 percentage point difference in the national rate of child labor b...

This paper investigates potential measurement error biases in poverty transition matrices. We compare transition matrices based on survey consumption data to measurement-error-free simulated consumption, which is built on initial conditions and parameters estimated from a basic consumption dynamics model allowing for measurement error. We …nd that measurement error in consumption data magni…es ...