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Health Problems as Determinants of Retirement:Are Self-Rated Measures Endogenous?
Measurement of health retirement ADL/IADL Self-Reported and Objective health
2016/3/18
We explore alternative measures of unobserved health status in order to identify effects of mental and physical capacity for work on older men’s retirement. Traditional self-ratings of poor health are...
AN EMPIRICAL TEST OF RESPONDENT-DRIVEN SAMPLING: POINT ESTIMATES, VARIANCE, DEGREE MEASURES, AND OUT-OF-EQUILIBRIUM DATA
population RESPONDENT-DRIVEN SAMPLING
2015/9/11
This paper, which is the first large scale application of Respondent-Driven
Sampling (RDS) to non-hidden populations, tests three factors related to RDS estimation
against institutional data using...
The Strength of Issues: Using Multiple Measures to Gauge Preference Stability, Ideological Constraint, and Issue Voting
Strength of Issues Gauge Preference Stability
2015/6/8
Avenerable supposition of American survey research is that the vast majority of voters have
incoherent and unstable preferences about political issues, which in turn have little impact on vote
choic...
Self-Reported Versus Performance-Based Measures of Physical Function: Prognostic Value for Survival
disability mortality performance assessments physical function self report
2014/11/26
Background: Although previous studies have indicated that performance assessments strongly predict future survival, few have evaluated the incremental value in the presence of controls for self-report...
Cause-specific measures of life years lost
competing risks cumulative incidence life expectancy life years lost multiple decrement life-table
2014/11/25
Background: A new measure of the number of life years lost due to specific causes of death is introduced.Methods: This measure is based on the cumulative incidence of death, it does not require "indep...
Effectiveness and Efficiency of Educational Measures: Evaluation Practices, Indicators and Rhetoric
Education Policies Evaluation Effectiveness Efficiency
2013/9/5
In recent years, evaluating the performance of educational organizations has sparked increasing interest and debate. Many expectations ride on the smooth operation of school systems. It is widely beli...
Non-stationary patterns of isolation-by-distance: inferring measures of genetic friction
landscape genetics gene flow genetic barrier isolation by distance,non-stationary kriging
2012/11/26
The pattern of isolation-by-distance arises when population differentiation increases with increasing geographic distances. This pattern is usually caused by local spatial dispersal which explains why...
Effectiveness and Efficiency of Educational Measures: Evaluation Practices, Indicators and Rhetoric
Education Policies Evaluation Effectiveness Efficiency
2013/2/19
In recent years, evaluating the performance of educational organizations has sparked increasing interest and debate. Many expectations ride on the smooth operation of school systems. It is widely beli...
Can Money Change Who We Are? Estimating the Effects of Unearned Income on Measures of Incentive-Enhancing Personality Traits
noncognitive skills personality traits lottery winners instrumental variables unearned income
2012/10/19
The importance of noncognitive childhood skills in predicting higher wages is well documented in economics. This paper studies the reverse. Using surveys of lottery winners, we analyze the effects of ...
The Use of Flexible Measures to Cope with Economic Crises in Germany and Brazil
labor market flexibility Germany Brazil working time dismissal protection
2012/10/19
This study gives a comparative overview of labor market dynamics and institutional arrangements in Germany and Brazil with particular emphasis on industrial relations, wage setting, unemployment benef...
How Partisan is the Press? Multiple Measures of Media Slant
media slant media bias competition economics of elections
2012/10/19
We employ several different approaches to estimate the political position of Australian media outlets, relative to federal parliamentarians. First, we use parliamentary mentions to code over 100 publi...
On Educational Performance Measures
school quality performance measures education incentives
2012/10/24
Quantitative school performance measures (QPMs) are playing an ever larger role in education systems on both sides of the Atlantic. In this paper we outline the rationale for the use of such measures ...
Bias in the Legal Profession: Self-Assessed versus Statistical Measures of Discrimination
labor market discrimination lawyers gender and racial bias wages
2012/10/26
Legal cases are generally won or lost on the basis of statistical discrimination measures, but it is workers' perceptions of discriminatory behavior that are important for understanding many labor-sup...
The Feasibility and Importance of Adding Measures of Actual Experience to Cross-Sectional Data Collection
gender microeconomic data collection human capital work experience
2012/10/25
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 a...
Which Measures of Time Preference Best Predict Outcomes? Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment
time preference impatience di scounting, present bias field experiment trucker
2012/10/26
Economists and psychologists have devised numerous instruments to measure time preferences and have generated a rich literature examining the extent to which time preferences predict important outcome...