Misreporting in Sensitive Health Behaviors and Its Impact on Treatment Effects: An Application to Intimate Partner Violence

Jorge Agüero and Veronica Frisancho

No 8696, IDB Publications (Working Papers) from Inter-American Development Bank

Abstract: A growing literature seeks to identify policies that could reduce intimate partner violence. However, in the absence of reliable administrative records, this violence is often measured using self-reported data from health surveys. In this paper, an experiment is conducted comparing data from such surveys against a methodology that provides greater privacy to the respondent. Non-classical measurement error in health surveys is identified as college-educated women, but not the less educated, underreport physical and sexual violence. The paper provides a low-cost solution to correct the bias in the estimation of causal effects under non-classical measurement error in the dependent variable.

Keywords: Non-random measurement error; List experiments; Intimate partner violence; Treatment effects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-12
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