various types of measurement bias. This paper uses Engel curve estimations to assess bias in the consumer price index and its …, poverty reduction may be understated because of consumer price index bias. With correction of consumer price index bias … adjusting for consumer price index bias for the other three countries …

equality and the empowerment of women. Yet, existing frameworks for women's agency measurement -- both disorganized and partial …, the paper (i) reviews existing measurement approaches and what is known about their relative quality; (ii) presents new … empirical evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa: validating vignettes as a measurement tool for goal-setting, examining gender and …

to obtain evidence on the nature of measurement errors in estimates of household consumption. While there are no … questionnaires shows that errors have a negative correlation with the true value of consumption, creating a non-classical measurement …

evidence shows that rank-based measures are less affected by measurement error and life-cycle bias compared with other standard … average bias in rank correlation is less than half of that in intergenerational regression coefficient, and comparable to that … in intergenerational correlation in magnitude. The intercept estimates are biased upward, with the largest bias found in …

the inflation faced by the poorest consumers. As a result of this bias, the observed increases in nominal inequality … generally exceed the actual changes in real inequality. These results are robust to correcting for quality change bias in the …