Datta Gupta, Nabanita; Kristensen, Nicolai; Pozzoli, Dario - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
-population specific response style. To correct for this, the use of vignettes has become increasingly popular, notably within cross …-country health studies. However, the validity of vignettes as a means to re-scale across sample populations critically rests on the … assumption of "response consistency" (RC): that vignettes and self-assessments are evaluated on the same scale. In this paper, we …