Correcting for Misreporting of Government Benefits

Nikolas Mittag

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2019, vol. 11, issue 2, 142-64

Abstract: Data linkage studies often document, but do not remedy, severe survey errors. To improve survey estimates despite restricted linked data access, this paper develops a convenient and general estimation method that combines public use data with conditional distribution parameters estimated from linked data. Analyses using linked SNAP data show that this method sharply improves estimates and consistently outperforms corrections that mainly rely on survey data. Yet, some univariate corrections perform well when linked data do not exist. For SNAP, extrapolating from linked data across time and geography still improves upon estimates using survey data only, even after survey-based corrections.

JEL-codes: C81 C83 H75 I18 I38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
Note: DOI: 10.1257/pol.20160618
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