Can you trust survey responses? Evidence using objective health measures
Suziedelyte, A. & Johar, M. (2013). Can you trust survey responses? Evidence using objective health measures. Economics Letters, 121(2), pp. 163-166. doi: 10.1016/j.econlet.2013.07.027
Abstract
We investigate the common assumption in applied research that reporting errors are negligible in variables where there is no clear incentive for misreporting. Using major medical operations, we find high misreporting rates, but the coefficients of their predictors remain unbiased.
| Publication Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | © 2013, Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
| Publisher Keywords: | Measurement error, Health, Socio economic status |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
| Departments: | School of Policy & Global Affairs > Economics |
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