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Difficulty to Reach Respondents and Nonresponse Bias : Evidence from Large Government Surveys

Heffetz, Ori - 2016

household expenditures? We study the sources of the relevant official statistics—the Current Population Survey (CPS), the … Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), and the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CEX)—and find that the answers depend on …

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Professor Qualities and Student Achievement

Hoffman, Florian - 2007

This paper uses a new administrative dataset of students at a large university matched to courses and instructors to analyze the importance of teacher quality at the postsecondary level. Instructors are matched to both objective and subjective characteristics of teacher quality to estimate the...

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A Comparison of Micro and Macro Expenditure Measures Across Countries Using Differing Survey Methods

Barrett, Garry F. - 2013

This paper presents a comparative assessment of the performance of the household expenditure survey programs in … Australia, Canada, the UK and US. Cross-country and time series variation in survey methodology and experience is used to assess … remained fairly stable in Canada and Australia; in the UK and US coverage rates declined sharply. Survey response rates and top …

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How Social Processes Distort Measurement : The Impact of Survey Nonresponse on Estimates of Volunteer Work

Abraham, Katharine G. - 2013

Estimates of volunteering in the United States vary greatly from survey to survey and do not show the decline over time … survey participation, in particular the propensity of people who do volunteer work to respond to surveys at higher rates than … data from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) -- the sample for which is drawn from Current Population Survey (CPS …

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