Can you trust survey responses? Evidence using objective health measures

Agne Suziedelyte and Meliyanni Johar

Economics Letters, 2013, vol. 121, issue 2, 163-166

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.

Keywords: Measurement error; Health; Socio economic status (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C1 I1 I2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2013.07.027

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