I report the measurement error in self-reported earnings for a developing country. Administrative data from the Federated States of Micronesia's (FSM) Social Security office are matched to the FSM Census data for the wage sector employed. I find that the error in annual self-reported earnings is...

This paper examines the consequences of data error in data series used to construct aggregate indicators. Using the most popular indicator of country level economic development, the Human Development Index (HDI), we identify three separate sources of data error. We propose a simple statistical...

It is common in empirical research to use what appear to be sensible rules of thumb for cleaning data. Measurement error is often the justification for removing (trimming) or recoding (winsorizing) observations whose values lie outside a specified range. This paper considers identification in a...

We propose a simple model of trooper behavior to design empirical tests for whether troopers of different races are monolithic in their search behavior, and whether they exhibit relative racial prejudice in motor vehicle searches. Our test of relative racial prejudice provides a partial solution...

We propose novel conditional autoregressive Wishart (CAW) models for high-dimensional realized covariance matrices of asset returns. We incorporate measurement errors into realized variance dynamics of Realized Dynamic Conditional Correlation (Re-DCC) model. It is well known that the measurement...

We propose a general method of moments technique to identify measurement error in self-reported and transcript-reported schooling using differences in wages, test scores, and other covariates to discern the relative verity of each measure. We also explore the implications of such reporting...

The neoclassical theory of production supports the identity i.e. the Output-Labor ratio equals wage-labor ratio plus profit labor ratio. Here profit is treated as capital. The variables wage to labor ratio and capital to labor ratio are considered real variables in the neoclassical theory; so...

We introduce a structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) model with each of the mutually independent errors following a skewed generalized t-distribution that is more flexible than a Student's t-distribution typically considered. Hence, the effect of potential distributional misspecification is...

This paper studies how entrepreneurs form new beliefs after making forecast errors. I use survey-based micro data that are representative of the population of French entrepreneurs, and I find that 21\% of entrepreneurs make optimistic errors, while 36\% make pessimistic errors, suggesting that a...