Models of statistical discrimination typically assume that employers make rational inferencefrom (education) signals. However, there is a large amount of evidence showing thatmost people do not update their beliefs rationally. We use a model and two experimentsto show that employers who are...

Despite the impression that the federal statistical system has been starved for resources, the record over the last decade or so, judged by conventional deflation methods, has been one of rough stability. The quality of U.S. international data on commodity and service trade, direct investment,...

Difference in differences methods have become very popular in applied work. This paper provides a new method for inference in these models when there are a small number of policy changes. This situation occurs in many implementations of these estimators. Identification of the key parameter...

This is the supplementary appendix to the paper `On-chain analytics for sentiment-driven statistical causality in cryptocurrencies', by Chalkiadakis, Ioannis and Zaremba, Anna and Peters, Gareth and Chantler, Michael John.The appendix contains additional studies and research results for the main...

Measurement of price change is based on averages - also, hedonic price index numbers. As NSIs obtain scannerdata having varying content, question arise: what is correct average to use? We compare in this paper price change estimates based on most known averages and index numbers including...

Differences between chain and base methods (or strategies) are analyzed. This is a preliminary paper that concentrates on numerical results and new ideas. Omitted proofs will appear in later papers. As in title, we use the term circular or chain error. We do not use milder terms as drift or...

"“Studying the Balance of the National Economy: An Introduction.” (1926), by Pavel Illich Popov,"is a translation from the Russian of “Vvedenie k izucheniiu balansa narodnogo khoziaistva,” published first in 1926 in "Balans narodnogo khoziaistva Soiuza SSR 1923-24 goda" [Balance of the...

This article provides a presentation about Chapter 1 of The Balance of the National Economy, 1923-24, edited by Pavel Illich Popov. The Balance was issued in June 1926 by the Central Statistical Administration (CSU or TsSU) of the USSR, which Popov had headed from July 1918 to January 1926. In...

Despite established recommended standard definitions, measures, and methods by the UN Washington Group on Disability Statistics and the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) to assess dimensions of disability, national censuses vary widely in the questions used...

Representativeness is a foundational yet slippery concept. Though familiar at first blush, it lacks a single precise meaning. Instead, meanings range from typical or characteristic, to a proportionate match between sample and population, to a more general sense of accuracy, generalizability,...