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This paper presents an indirect approach to investigate the possible existence of measurement error bias in the … bias in the UK, nor for Italy prior to the introduction of the Euro. Since January 2002, however, the inflation rate in …
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We assess the role of measurement error in minimum wage evaluations when the treatment variable - the bite - is … measurement error derived from a record linkage of survey wages and administrative data. On the individual-level treatment effects … level does not fully alleviate the bias. In fact, the magnitude and direction of the bias depend on the size of the …
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living standards. Our findings indicate that CPI bias has caused a substantial understatement of the growth performance of … the Russian economy during the transition. Even just allowing household final consumption to be deflated with bias, we … find that the level of real per capita GDP in 2001 may be understated by up to thirty percent compared with using a bias …
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points. This was due to several measurement errors in the CPI. One of them is called quality change bias. We compare two … methods in this paper which can be used to correct for quality change bias, namely the hedonic method and a method based on …
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, and consequently, lack ability to handle measurement errors in the data. This paper extends and generalizes existing … procedures that account for measurement errors in revealed preference tests. In particular, it introduces a very efficient method … both classical and Berkson measurement errors models …
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, and consequently, lack ability to handle measurement errors in the data. This paper extends and generalizes existing … procedures that account for measurement errors in revealed preference tests. In particular, it introduces a very efficient method … both classical and Berkson measurement errors models. …
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We compile data for 186 countries (1919 - 2016) and apply different aggregation methods to create new democracy indices. We observe that most of the available aggregation techniques produce indices that are often too favorable for autocratic regimes and too unfavorable for democratic regimes....
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