Search Results - subject:"errors"

Accuracy of self-reported private health insurance coverage

Ha Trong Nguyen; Le, Huong Thu; Connelly, Luke B.; … - In: Health economics 32 (2023) 12, pp. 2709-2729

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The mismeasurement of work time : implications for wage discrimination and inequality

Borjas, George J.; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2023

many logical inconsistencies and probable errors. About 8 percent of ASEC respondents report weeks worked last year that … errors and imputations are not random: The levels and trends differ by gender and race, and they affect the calculation of … wage differentials between 1978 to 2018. After adjusting for the measurement errors and excluding imputations, we find that …

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On testing equal conditional predictive ability under measurement error

Hoga, Yannick; Dimitriadis, Timo - In: Journal of business & economic statistics : JBES ; a … 41 (2023) 2, pp. 364-376

Loss functions are widely used to compare several competing forecasts. However, forecast comparisons are often based on mismeasured proxy variables for the true target. We introduce the concept of exact robustness to measurement error for loss functions and fully characterize this class of loss...

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Multiple testing of ordinal stochastic monotonicity

Wu, Qian; Kaplan, David M. - 2023

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Decomposing trust

Engelmann, Dirk; Friedrichsen, Jana; Veldhuizen, Roel van; … - 2023

Trust is an important condition for economic growth and other economic outcomes. Previous studies suggest that the decision to trust is driven by a combination of risk attitudes, distributional preferences, betrayal aversion, and beliefs about the probability of being reciprocated. We compare...

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Optimal forecast combination with mean absolute error loss

Chan, Felix; Pauwels, Laurent - 2023

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Optimal out-of-sample forecast evaluation under stationarity

Staněk, Filip - In: Journal of forecasting 42 (2023) 8, pp. 2249-2279

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Model error (or ambiguity) and its estimation, with particular application to loss reserving

Taylor, Greg; Mc Guire, Gráinne - In: Risks : open access journal 11 (2023) 11, pp. 1-28

. Forecast error is generally regarded as consisting of three components, namely parameter, process and model errors. The first … also provides the bonus of an estimate of parameter error. It turns out that the estimates of parameter and model errors …

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Self-employment income reporting on surveys

Imboden, Christian; Voorheis, John; Weber, Caroline - 2023

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Estimating demand for differentiated products with zeroes in market share data

Gandhi, Amit; Lu, Zhentong; Shi, Xiaoxia - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 14 (2023) 2, pp. 341-418

In this paper, we introduce a new approach to estimating differentiated product demand systems that allows for products with zero sales in the data. Zeroes in demand are a common problem in differentiated product markets, but fall outside the scope of existing demand estimation techniques. We...

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