Search Results - subject:"Measurement error"

An inexact science : accounting for measurement error and downward bias in mode and location choice models

Donovan, Stuart; Graaff, Thomas de; Groot, Henri L. F. de - 2023

Using commuting data for Brisbane, Australia, we find that accounting for measurement error in travel times causes the …

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Accounting for individual-specific reliability of self-assessed measures of economic preferences and personality traits

Dohmen, Thomas; Jagelka, Tomáš - 2023

measurement error. This paper presents the first attempt at measuring both revealed and self-reported reliability of individuals …' answers on self-reports of latent characteristics. We show that measurement error on self-reports relevant to economists is … effort and self-knowledge in generating measurement error and propose a simple model which rationalizes our findings. …

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Accounting for individual-specific reliability of self-assessed measures of economic preferences and personality traits

Dohmen, Thomas; Jagelka, Tomáš - 2023

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How reliable are national accounts estimates of agricultural output?

Jones, Sam; Mucocana, Marcelo - 2025

Measurement errors in macroeconomic aggregates such as GDP have been widely lamented, particularly in low-income contexts. This study investigates the reliability of one component of national accounts, agricultural sector output. Focusing first on the case of Mozambique, we use a series of 12...

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Missing parcels and farm size measurement error: Do nationally representative surveys provide reliable estimates?

Holden, Stein Terje; Makate, Clifton; Tione, Sarah - 2025

. The ignorance of this non-classical measurement error is associated with a downward bias of 12-41% in average and median …

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Satellite Data in Agricultural and Environmental Economics: Theory and Practice

Wuepper, David; Oluoch, Wyclife Agumba; Hadi, Hadi - In: Agricultural Economics 56 (2025) 3, pp. 493-511

Agricultural and environmental economists are in the fortunate position that a lot of what is happening on the ground is observable from space. Most agricultural production happens in the open and one can see from space when and where innovations are adopted, crop yields change, or forests are...

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Standard errors for difference-in-difference regression

Hansen, Bruce E. - In: Journal of applied econometrics 40 (2025) 3, pp. 291-309

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Have we under-estimated inflation persistence before WW1? : US and international evidence

Gerlach, Stefan; Stuart, Rebecca - 2025

We argue that measurement error in historical price data has led researchers to erroneously believe that there was …

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Inconsistencies in self-reported weather-related home damage among household members

Ha Trong Nguyen; Mitrou, Francis - 2025

Using longitudinal, nationally representative data from Australia, this study uncovers a previously undocumented pattern: in over half of cases where one household member reports weather-related home damage, their co-resident does not. This high rate of intra-household inconsistency is striking,...

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Error rates compared : methodologies underpinning the European Commission's risk at payment/closure and the European Court of Auditors' estimated level of error

Rampton, James (contributor); … - European Parliament / Directorate-General for Budgetary … - 2025

This study introduces Members of the European Parliament to the different estimates of the level of error affecting EU expenditure in cohesion policy. It explains how the European Commission calculates the estimated 'risk at payment' and 'risk at closure', how the European Court of Auditors...

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