Slipping Anchor?: Testing the Vignettes Approach to Identification and Correction of Reporting Heterogeneity

Teresa Bago d’Uva, Maarten Lindeboom (), Owen O’Donnell and Eddy Van Doorslaer
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Owen O'Donnell and Teresa Bago d'Uva

Journal of Human Resources, 2011, vol. 46, issue 4

Abstract: We propose tests of the two assumptions under which anchoring vignettes identify heterogeneity in reporting of categorical evaluations. Systematic variation in the perceived difference between any two vignette states is sufficient to reject vignette equivalence. Response consistency—the respondent uses the same response scale to evaluate the vignette and herself—is testable given sufficiently comprehensive objective indicators that independently identify response scales. Both assumptions are rejected for reporting of cognitive and physical functioning in a sample of older English individuals, although a weaker test resting on less stringent assumptions does not reject response consistency for cognition. Journal: Journal of Human Resources

Date: 2011
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (46)

Downloads: (external link)
http://jhr.uwpress.org/cgi/reprint/46/4/875
A subscription is required to access pdf files. Pay per article is available.

Related works:
Working Paper: Slipping Anchor? Testing the Vignettes Approach to Identification and Correction of Reporting Heterogeneity (2009)
Working Paper: Slipping Anchor? Testing the Vignettes Approach to Identification and Correction of Reporting Heterogeneity (2009)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:uwp:jhriss:v:46:y:2011:iv:1:p:875-906

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Journal of Human Resources from University of Wisconsin Press
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().