Calendrier du 23 mars 2023
Behavior seminar
Du 23/03/2023 de 16:30 à 17:30
Online
BENJAMIN Daniel (Anderson School of Management, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA)
Adjusting for Scale-Use Heterogeneity in Self-Reported Well-Being
Analyses of self-reported-well-being (SWB) survey data may be confounded if people use response scales differently. We use calibration questions, designed to have the same objective answer across respondents, to measure general (i.e., common across questions) scale-use heterogeneity. In a sample of ~3,350 MTurkers, we find substantial such heterogeneity that is correlated with demographics. We develop a theoretical framework and econometric approaches to adjust for this heterogeneity. A key simplifying assumption, motivated by our evidence, is that different respondents’ scale-use functions are linear transformations of each other. We apply our new estimators in several standard SWB applications. Adjusting for general-scale-use heterogeneity changes results in some cases, and our framework predicts when adjustment will matter.
Travail et économie publique externe
Du 23/03/2023 de 12:30 à 13:30
PSE- 48 boulevard Jourdan, 74014 Paris, salle R1-09
KETEL Nadine (VU)
The (un)importance of school assignment
écrit avec Hessel Oosterbeek, Sandor Sovago and Bas van der Klaauw
We combine data from the Amsterdam secondary-school match with register data and data gathered through in-school surveys of students to estimate the effects of not receiving an offer from one's most-preferred school on academic outcomes and any other outcome that parents and students may care about. Secondary-school assignment in Amsterdam uses the Deferred Acceptance algorithm with ties broken by lottery numbers. Losing the admission lottery for one's most-preferred school affects the characteristics, distance and peers of the school from which an offer is received and, due to high compliance, of the school of placement. Lottery losers report that they would rather have attended another school. This effect is, however, small and only present in the first year after the lottery. Despite the different school environment, we find no effect on school progression. Nor do we find negative effects on a range of other (groups of) outcomes including: time on homework, help with homework, attitudes towards school, awareness of parents, behavior inside school, behavior outside school, school satisfaction, civic engagement, having friends, and students' personality. Estimates are very similar for students assigned to schools ranked second, third or outside top-3. There are also no indications that specific groups of student (gender, etnicity, SES, ability) are harmed by losing the admission lottery.
TOM (Théorie, Organisation et Marchés) Lunch Seminar
Du 23/03/2023 de 12:30 à 13:30
Salle R1-14, Campus Jourdan, 75014 Paris
BALLESTER Miguel (Oxford University)
*The Rationalizability of Survey Responses (with Jose Apesteguia)
In this paper we propose and study the notion of survey rationalizability. For the simplest case of dichotomous surveys, rationalizabilitymeans that both questions and ideal views of individuals can be located in the real line in a way that agreed questions correspond to those providing higher utility than a threshold. We show how the relative location of questions can be learnt using a revelation mechanism that involves pairs of individuals and triplets of questions, and that the acyclicity of these revelations suffices for rationalizability. We then show that our analysis readily extends to the cases of non-dichotomous Likert-scales and of probabilistic responses. We further study the identification of the main parameters of the model and show that, in an exponential version of the probabilistic model, even the cardinal locations can be fully determined. We conclude by studying an alternative model of survey responses known as Guttman-scales.
Macroeconomics Seminar
Du 23/03/2023
PSE- 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, salle R2-21