Can you trust survey responses? Evidence using objective health measures

Agne Suziedelyte; Meliyanni Johar

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2013.07.027

Can you trust survey responses? Evidence using objective health measures

Agne Suziedelyte, Meliyanni Johar

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	163 - 166
Number of pages	4
Journal	Economics Letters
Volume	121
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2013.07.027
Publication status	Published - 2013
Externally published	Yes

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