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Automating Response Evaluation for Franchising Questions on the 2017 Economic Census

Staudt, Joseph; Wei, Yifang; Singh, Lisa; Klimek, Shawn D. - 2022

Between the 2007 and 2012 Economic Censuses (EC), the count of franchise-affiliated establishments declined by 9.8%. One reason for this decline was a reduction in resources that the Census Bureau was able to dedicate to the manual evaluation of survey responses in the franchise section of the...

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Emptying the Tank : Getting the Most Out of Limited Data

Taylor, M. Scott - 2018

All empirical researchers know that having more sources of variation in a dataset is valuable. What is not known is how valuable, and if the marginal value of adding another source of variation diminishes or increases. This note provides explicit answers to these questions. It defines "valuable"...

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The Feasibility and Importance of Adding Measures of Actual Experience to Cross-Sectional Data Collection

Blau, Francine D. - 2011

We use Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics data and data from a 2008 telephone survey of adults conducted by Westat for the Princeton Data Improvement Initiative (PDII) to explore the importance and feasibility of adding retrospective questions about actual work experience to cross-sectional...

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Measuring the Accuracy of Survey Responses Using Administrative Register Data : Evidence from Denmark

Kreiner, Claus Thustrup - 2013

This paper shows how Danish administrative register data can be combined with survey data at the person level and be used to validate information collected in the survey. Register data are collected by automatic third party reporting and the potential errors associated with the two data sources...

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Using Linked Survey and Administrative Data to Better Measure Income : Implications for Poverty, Program Effectiveness and Holes in the Safety Net

Meyer, Bruce D. - 2015

We examine the consequences of underreporting of transfer programs for prototypical analyses of low-income populations using the Current Population Survey (CPS), the source of official poverty and inequality statistics. We link administrative data for food stamps, TANF, General Assistance, and...

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Education Research and Administrative Data

Figlio, David N. - 2015

large-scale, comprehensive data files on tax programs, workforce information, benefit programs, health, and education. While …

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Adjusting Imperfect Data : Overview and Case Studies

Vilhuber, Lars - 2010

Research users of large administrative have to adjust their data for quirks, problems, and issues that are inevitable when working with these kinds of datasets. Not all solutions to these problems are identical, and how they differ may affect how the data is to be interpreted. Some elements of...

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The Relationship between Health and Growth : When Lucas Meets Nelson-Phelps

Aghion, Philippe - 2010

This paper revisits the relationship between health and growth in light of modern endogenous growth theory. We propose … a unified framework that encompasses the growth effects of both the rate of improvement of health and the level of … health. Based on cross-country regressions over the period 1960-2000, where we instrument for both variables, we find that a …

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Observational Agency and Supply-Side Econometrics

Philipson, Tomas J. - 2021

A central problem in applied empirical work is to separate out the patterns in the data that are due to poor production of the data, such as e.g. non-response and measurement errors, from the patterns attributable to the economic phenomena studied. This paper interprets this inference problem as...

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Sorting Out Sorts

Berk, Jonathan B. - 2010

In this paper we analyze the theoretical implications of sorting data into groups and then running asset pricing tests within each group. We show that the way this procedure is implemented introduces a severe bias in favor of rejecting the model under consideration. By simply picking enough...

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