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Nonparametric bounds in the presence of item nonresponse, unfolding brackets, and anchoring

Author(s)
Vazquez-Alvarez, Rosalia  
Melenberg, Bertrand  
Soest, Arthur van  
Uri
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/1849
Date Issued
2001-09
Date Available
2010-02-10T14:43:28Z
Abstract
Household surveys often suffer from nonresponse on variables such as income, savings or wealth. Recent work by Manski shows how bounds on conditional quantiles of the variable of interest can be derived, allowing for any type of nonrandom item nonresponse. The width between these bounds can be reduced using follow up questions in the form of unfolding brackets for initial item nonrespondents. Recent evidence, however, suggests that such a design is
vulnerable to anchoring effects. In this paper Manski’s bounds are extended to incorporate the information provided by the bracket respondents allowing for different forms of anchoring. The new bounds are applied to earnings in the 1996 wave of the Health and Retirement Survey. The
results show that the categorical questions can be useful to increase precision of the bounds, even if anchoring is allowed for.
Type of Material
Working Paper
Publisher
University College Dublin. Institute for the Study of Social Change (Geary Institute)
Series
ISSC Discussion Paper Series
WP2003/02
Subjects

Unfolding bracket des...

Anchoring effects

Item nonresponse

Bounding intervals

Classification
C14
C42
C81
D31
Subject – LCSH
Nonresponse (Statistics)
Household surveys--Response rate
Nonparametric statistics
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http://www.ucd.ie/geary/publications/2003/anchoring.pdf
Language
English
Status of Item
Not peer reviewed
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