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154 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17608
Measuring Economic Preferences with Surveys and Behavioral Experiments
Michael Kosfeld, Zahra Sharafi, Maíra Sontag González, Na Zou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17201
Inequality Bands: Seventy-Five Years of Measuring Income Inequality in Latin America
Facundo Alvaredo, Francois Bourguignon, Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Nora Lustig
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17165
How Do You Find a Good Manager?
Ben Weidmann, Joseph Vecci, Farah Said, David Deming, Sonia R. Bhalotra
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17154
(Don't) Walk This Way: The Econometrics of Crosswalks
Daniel L. Millimet
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16753
What Makes an Individual Inclusive of Others? Development and Validation of the Individual Inclusiveness Inventory
Cecily Josten, Grace Lordan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16699
The Mismeasurement of Work Time: Implications for Wage Discrimination and Inequality
George J. Borjas, Daniel S. Hamermesh
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16567
Intergenerational Health Mobility in Germany
Daniel Graeber
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16508
Embrace the Noise: It Is OK to Ignore Measurement Error in a Covariate, Sometimes
Hao Dong, Daniel L. Millimet
forthcoming in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16027
Accounting For Individual-Specific Reliability of Self-Assessed Measures of Economic Preferences and Personality Traits
Thomas Dohmen, Tomáš Jagelka
published online in: Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, 26 June 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15943
Earnings Penalty of Educational Mismatch: A Comparison of Alternative Methods of Assessing Over-Education
Le Wen, Sholeh A. Maani
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15670
Households in Transit: COVID-19 and the Changing Measurement of Welfare
Laura Caron, Erwin R. Tiongson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15670
Households in Transit: COVID-19 and the Changing Measurement of Welfare
Laura Caron, Erwin R. Tiongson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15528
Patterns, Determinants, and Consequences of Ability Tracking: Evidence from Texas Public Schools
Kate Antonovics, Sandra E. Black, Julie Berry Cullen, Akiva Yonah Meiselman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15380
A Model of Errors in BMI Based on Self-Reported and Measured Anthropometrics with Evidence from Brazilian Data
Apostolos Davillas, Victor Hugo de Oliveira, Andrew M. Jones
revised version published in: Empirical Economics, 2024, 67, 2371–2410
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15335
The Crime Effect of Refugees
Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Naci Mocan, Semih Tumen, Belgi Turan
published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2024, 43 (2), 472-508
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15252
Measuring Knowledge
James J. Heckman, Jin Zhou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15177
Measurements of Skill and Skill-Use Using PIAAC
Daiji Kawaguchi, Takahiro Toriyabe
published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 78, 102197.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15149
Multidimensional Equality of Opportunity in the United States
Paul Hufe, Martyna Kobus, Andreas Peichl, Paul Schüle
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15132
The Impacts of a Prototypical Home Visiting Program on Child Skills
Jin Zhou, James J. Heckman, Bei Liu, Mai Lu
earlier version of this paper available as IZA DP No. 13346.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15085
Is Inconsistent Reporting of Self-Assessed Health Persistent and Systematic? Evidence from the UKHLS
Apostolos Davillas, Victor Hugo de Oliveira, Andrew M. Jones
revised version published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2023, 49, 101219
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15030
Employer-to-Employer Transitions and Time Aggregation Bias
Antoine Bertheau, Rune Majlund Vejlin
published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 75, 102130
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14995
What Leads to Measurement Errors? Evidence from Reports of Program Participation in Three Surveys
Pablo Celhay, Bruce D. Meyer, Nikolas Mittag
published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2024, 238 (2), 105581
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14760
Measuring Youth Empowerment: An Illustration Using the Example of Tunisia
Micheline Goedhuys, Michael Grimm, Aline Meysonnat, Eleonora Nillesen, Ann-Kristin Reitmann
published as 'Measuring youth empowerment: An application to Tunisia' in: Journal of International Development, 2024, 36 (4), 1945-1964
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14755
On the Stability of Risk Preferences: Measurement Matters
Joop Adema, Till Nikolka, Panu Poutvaara, Uwe Sunde
published in: Economics Letters, 2022, 210, 110172
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14695
The Implications of Self-Reported Body Weight and Height for Measurement Error in BMI
Apostolos Davillas, Andrew M. Jones
revised version published in: Economics Letters, 2021, 209, 110101
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14405
Reconciling Reports: Modelling Employment Earnings and Measurement Errors Using Linked Survey and Administrative Data
Stephen P. Jenkins, Fernando Rios-Avila
published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 2023, 186 (1), 110 - 136
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14404
Finite Mixture Models for Linked Survey and Administrative Data: Estimation and Post-estimation
Stephen P. Jenkins, Fernando Rios-Avila
published in: Stata Journal, 2023, 23 (1), 53 - 85
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14396
Errors in Reporting and Imputation of Government Benefits and Their Implications
Pablo Celhay, Bruce D. Meyer, Nikolas Mittag
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14285
Job Design, Learning & Intrinsic Motivation
Michael Gibbs
published in: Tor Eriksson (ed.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Labour Studies, Edward Elgar, 2023, 86–90
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14217
Immigrants' Economic Performance and Selective Outmigration: Diverging Predictions from Survey and Administrative Data
Charles Bellemare, Natalia Kyui, Guy Lacroix
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14172
Measurement Error in Earnings Data: Replication of Meijer, Rohwedder, and Wansbeek's Mixture Model Approach to Combining Survey and Register Data
Stephen P. Jenkins, Fernando Rios-Avila
published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2021, 36 (4), 474 - 483
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14116
COVID-19 Severity: A New Approach to Quantifying Global Cases and Deaths
Daniel L. Millimet, Christopher F. Parmeter
published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 2022, 185, 1178-1215
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13895
Measuring the Statistical Capacity of Nations
Grant J. Cameron, Hai-Anh H Dang, Mustafa Dinc, James Foster, Michael Lokshin
published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2021, 83 (4), 870-896.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13893
Propensity Score Weighting with Mismeasured Covariates: An Application to Two Financial Literacy Interventions
Hao Dong, Daniel L. Millimet
published in: Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 2020, 13, 290
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13809
Whoever You Want Me to Be: Personality and Incentives
Andrew McGee, Peter McGee
published in: Economic Inquiry, 2024, 64 (3), 1268 - 1291
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13714
A Note on the Importance of Normalizations in Dynamic Latent Factor Models of Skill Formation
Emilia Del Bono, Josh Kinsler, Ronni Pavan
published as 'Identification of dynamic latent factor models of skill formation with translog production' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2022, 37 (6), 1256 - 1265
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13713
Skill Formation and the Trouble with Child Non-Cognitive Skill Measures
Emilia Del Bono, Josh Kinsler, Ronni Pavan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13593
Correcting for Misclassied Binary Regressors Using Instrumental Variables
Steven J. Haider, Melvin Stephens Jr.
published online in: Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 21 Oct 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13509
Reconciling Occupational Mobility in the Current Population Survey
Christian vom Lehn, Cache Ellsworth, Zachary Kroff
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2022, 40 (4), 1005 - 1051
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13430
Bounding Program Benefits When Participation Is Misreported
Denni Tommasi, Lina Zhang
published in: Journal of Econometrics 2024, 238, (1), 105556
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13346
Treatment Effects and the Measurement of Skills in a Prototypical Home Visiting Program
James J. Heckman, Bei Liu, Mai Lu, Jin Zhou
new version available here
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13303
Are Economists' Preferences Psychologists' Personality Traits? A Structural Approach
Tomáš Jagelka
published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2024, 132 (3), 910–970
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13296
Beyond Birthweight: The Origins of Human Capital
Gabriella Conti, Mark Hanson, Hazel Inskip, Sarah Crozier, Cyrus Cooper, Keith Godfrey
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13222
The Insights and Illusions of Consumption Measurements
Erich Battistin, Michele De Nadai, Nandini Krishnan
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2023,161, 102991
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13196
Modelling Errors in Survey and Administrative Data on Employment Earnings: Sensitivity to the Fraction Assumed to Have Error-Free Earnings
Stephen P. Jenkins, Fernando Rios-Avila
published in: Economics Letters, 2020, 192, 109253
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13124
Inequality in Socio-Emotional Skills: A Cross-Cohort Comparison
Orazio Attanasio, Richard Blundell, Gabriella Conti, Giacomo Mason
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 191, 104171
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13020
Bounding the Joint Distribution of Disability and Employment with Contaminated Data
Ding Liu, Daniel L. Millimet
published as 'Bounding the Joint Distribution of Disability and Employment with Misclassification' in: Health Economics, 2021, 30, 1628-1647
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12940
Can Women's Self-Help Groups Contribute to Sustainable Development? Evidence of Capability Changes from Northern India
Paul Anand, Swati Saxena, Rolando Gonzales Martinez, Hai-Anh H Dang
published in: Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 2020, 21(2), 137-160.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12855
Evaluating the Success of President Johnson's War on Poverty: Revisiting the Historical Record Using a Full-Income Poverty Measure
Richard V. Burkhauser, Kevin Corinth, James Elwell, Jeff Larrimore
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12576
Accounting for Skewed or One-Sided Measurement Error in the Dependent Variable
Daniel L. Millimet, Christopher F. Parmeter
published in: Political Analysis, 2022, 30, 66-88
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