Showing 1 - 10 of 110
this paper we use a mandatory survey with open ended questions asking students about their first-year experience. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012951869
We use a variant of the Implicit Association Test (IAT) to examine individuals' implicit attitudes towards various ethnic groups. Using a population from the Democratic Republic of Congo, we find that the IAT measures show evidence of an implicit bias in favor of one's own ethnicity. Individuals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013029550
The Current Population Survey (CPS) is the source of official U.S. labor force statistics. The wording of the CPS … reports about other household members. In a survey experiment conducted using a sample of Mechanical Turk respondents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012913383
Motivated by the observation that survey expectations of stock returns are inconsistent with rational return … pricing literature are consistent with the survey evidence. We empirically test (1) the notion that survey forecasts … constitute rational but risk-neutral forecasts of future returns, and (2) the notion that survey forecasts are ambiguity averse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909905
We have recently initiated the Survey of Economic Expectations (SEE) to learn how Americans perceive their near …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218906
-designed survey, we find that most respondents express a strong desire to be well informed on economic policy issues, and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013222321
This paper reports preliminary results from a large research project on business pricing which is currently underway. The idea is to use interviews with actual price setters to assess the validity of a dozen theories of price stickiness. The rather unorthodox (for economists) methodology is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013222985
The 2004 Global Labor Survey (GLS) is an Internet-based survey that seeks to measure de facto labor practices in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013240988
evidence on the frequency of nominal wage adjustment using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141846
This paper considers the role of survey design and question phrasing in evaluating the subjective health assessment … responses using the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset. A unique feature of this dataset is that … respondents were twice asked during the survey to evaluate their health on a five-point scale, using two different sets of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122213