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The Missing Transfers: Estimating Mis-reporting in Dyadic Data

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  • Margherita Comola

    (PSE - Paris School of Economics - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - ENPC - École nationale des ponts et chaussées - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement, CES - Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Marcel Fafchamps

    (Economics - University of Oxford)

Abstract

Many studies have used self-reported dyadic data without exploiting the pattern of discordant answers. In this article we propose a maximum likelihood estimator that deals with misreporting in a systematic way. We illustrate the methodology using dyadic data on interhousehold transfers from the village of Nyakatoke in Tanzania. We show that not taking reporting bias into account leads to serious underestimation of the total amount of transfers between villagers. We also provide suggestive evidence that reporting bias can affect inference about estimated coefficients. The method introduced here is applicable whenever the researcher has two discordant measurements of the same dependent variable.
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  • Margherita Comola & Marcel Fafchamps, 2016. "The Missing Transfers: Estimating Mis-reporting in Dyadic Data," Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers) hal-01306614, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:cesptp:hal-01306614
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    • C13 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Estimation: General
    • C51 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling - - - Model Construction and Estimation
    • D85 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Network Formation

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