Sex, Lies, and Surveys: The Role of Interviewer Characteristics

Tricia Koroknay†Palicz () and Joao Montalvao
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Tricia Koroknay†Palicz: World Bank

Economics Bulletin, 2020, vol. 40, issue 4, 3313-3324

Abstract: This paper examines how easily observable interviewer characteristics, such as gender and physical attractiveness, and more difficult to observe characteristics, such as attitudes and beliefs, affect adolescent girls' disclosure of sexual behavior during a baseline survey for an adolescent girls program in Liberia. We find that girls are more likely to report sexual activity to better-looking interviewers, and less likely to do so to interviewers holding more discriminatory gender attitudes and greater expectations about the program. While we find no evidence of a direct effect of interviewer gender, we find some evidence that the impacts of interviewer characteristics vary by interviewer gender.

Keywords: Interviewer effects; adolescent girls. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C8 J1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-12-28
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