Search Results - subject:"sampling error"

YIELD GUARANTEES AND THE PRODUCER WELFARE BENEFITS OF CROP INSURANCE

Adhikari, Shyam; Knight, Thomas O.; Belasco, Eric J. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010

in determining the value of the insurance to producers. Sampling error in APH yields has the potential to lead to over … substitution and yield floors, that are intended to limit the degree to which sampling error can reduce the insurance guarantee and … producer welfare. We examine the impact of sampling error and related policy provisions for Texas cotton, Kansas wheat, and …

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Errors in Survey Based Quality Evaluation Variables in Efficiency Models of Primary Care Physicians

Kittelsen, Sverre A.C.; Kjæserud, Guri Galtung; … - Helseøkonomisk Forskningsprogram (HERO), Universitetet … - 2009

, the effect on the efficiency estimates of the remaining sampling error in the patient sample for each physician is …

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Non-Sampling Error and Data Quality: What Can We Learn from Surveys to Collect Data for Vulnerability Measurements?

Phung, T.D.; Hardeweg, B.; Praneetvatakul, S.; Waibel, H. - In: World Development 71 (2015) C, pp. 25-35

This paper investigates the causes for non-response and measurement errors in household panel surveys designed for assessing vulnerability to poverty in Thailand and Vietnam. Using data from surveys conducted in 2007 and 2008 we show that interview environment, timing, interviewer, and some...

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Non-sampling error and data quality : what can we learn from surveys to collect data for vulnerability measurements?

Tung Duc Phung; Hardeweg, Bernd; Suwanna Praneetvatakul; … - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 71 (2015), pp. 25-35

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Exaggeration bias-corrected contingent valuation method : the case of Olle Trail

Lee, Won Seok; Lee, Choong-Ki; Yoon, Yooshik; Kim, Jihee - In: Tourism economics : the business and finance of tourism … 21 (2015) 6, pp. 1323-1330

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Method of household surveys and characteristics of surveyed households : comparison regarding household composition, annual income and educational attainment

Sano, Shinpei; Tada, Shunji; Yamamoto, Manabu - In: Public policy review 11 (2015) 4, pp. 505-529

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Using a Farmer's Beta for Improved Estimation of Expected Yields

Carriquiry, Miguel A.; Babcock, Bruce A.; Hart, Chad E. - In: Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 33 (2008) 01

Effects of sampling error in estimation of farmersâ€™ mean yields for crop insurance purposes and their implications … for actuarial soundness are explored using farm-level corn yield data in Iowa. Results indicate that sampling error …

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Kingdom of the Netherlands; Netherlands: Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008

Overall competitiveness of the Dutch economy seems adequate, but domestically produced exports have lost market share recently. Over the past three decades, globalization has greatly influenced economies as countries have become more integrated. Empirical studies on business cycles...

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Selection Errors of Random Route Samples

Bauer, Johannes J. - In: Sociological Methods & Research 43 (2014) 3, pp. 519-544

Random route samples are widely used in face-to-face surveys. Most previous studies of random route sample quality compare the data collected by random route samples with data from reliable sources, such as the German Microcensus. While these studies usually find few differences in the...

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Stochastic Volatilities and Correlations, Extreme Values and Modeling the Macroeconomic Environment, Under Which Brazilian Banks Operate

Souto, Marcos; Barnhill, Theodore M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

Using monthly data for a set of variables, we examine the out-of-sample performance of various variance/covariance models and find that no model has consistently outperformed the others. We also show that it is possible to increase the probability mass toward the tails and to match reasonably...

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