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migration on sending families. We report the results of an experiment designed to compare the performance of three alternative …
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representative behavioral data from a social dilemma experiment. We identify which survey questions intended to elicit people's trust … correlate well with behaviorally exhibited trust in the experiment. People above the age of 65, highly skilled workers and …
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representative behavioral data from a social dilemma experiment. We identify which survey questions intended to elicit people's trust … correlate well with behaviorally exhibited trust in the experiment. People above the age of 65, highly skilled workers and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761956
In developing and transition economies, microlending has become an effective instrument for providing micro businesses with the necessary financial resources to launch operations. In the industrialized countries, with their highly developed banking systems, however, there has been ongoing debate...
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In developing and transition economies, microlending has become an effective instrument for providing micro businesses with the necessary financial resources to launch operations. In the industrialized countries, with their highly developed banking systems, however, there has been ongoing debate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005011900
This paper explores how cross-sectional data can be exploited jointly with longitudinal data,in order to increase estimation efficiency while properly tackling the potential bias due tounobserved individual characteristics. We propose an innovative procedure and we show itsimplementation by...
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Few representative surveys of households of migrants exist, limiting our ability to study theeffects of international migration on sending families. We report the results of an experimentdesigned to compare the performance of three alternative survey methods in collecting datafrom...
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Social surveys are often used to estimate unemployment duration distributions. Survey nonresponse may then cause a bias. We study this using a unique dataset that combines survey information of individual workers with administrative records of the same workers. The latter provide information on...
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We use unique data in which both partners report about household finances to demonstrate that there is often disagreement about whether the household has experienced financial difficulty in the past year. Four alternative explanations for this disagreement are tested using the data. The results...
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With the development of household budget systems and with regard to the requirements of the European Union with new EU-SILC approaches, the cumulation of cross-section surveys to an integrated information system is recently discussed and required. In particular the reconstruction of household...
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