Event History Data and Survey Recall: An Analysis of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Recall Experiment

Pierret, Charles R.

doi:10.2307/3069626

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“…Using only conflicts that could not be resolved within the time period under concern helps not only to make the dependent variable consistent over time but is also in line with the literature on recall bias that shows that people tend to forget temporary events of relatively short duration as the length of the recall period increases (Pierret, 2001). After stacking the data and taking out plots that had been affected by conflict in earlier periods, we obtain a pooled sample of 1515 plots.…”

Section: Incidence and Frequency Of Conflictsmentioning

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Incidence and impact of land conflict in Uganda

Deininger

Castagnini

2006

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

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While a large literature discusses the impact of titles on tenure security in Africa, little attention has been devoted to land conflicts. We use Ugandan data to explore the incidence of land conflicts, the impact of legal changes on their frequency, and their impact on productivity. Results indicate that female-headed households and widows are particularly affected that passage of the 1998 Land Act has failed to reduce their number, and that they have a significant and large productivity-reducing impact. In Africa, attention to land-related conflicts including ways to prevent and resolve them constitutes an important area for policy and research.

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Section: Incidence and Frequency Of Conflictsmentioning

confidence: 73%

Incidence and impact of land conflict in Uganda

Deininger

Castagnini

2006

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

196

125

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“…So we can be less concerned with the accuracy of their recall of the job-search process than we would have to be with midcareer job seekers. (Pierret 2001). This is especially critical because we collect information on all the job applications that a student sends out, not only the successful ones, which are most likely to be remembered.…”

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Do Job Seekers Benefit from Contacts? A Direct Test with Contemporaneous Searches

2013

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A lthough it is intuitively plausible that a job seeker benefits by using contacts in her job search, the literature is plagued by theoretical disagreements and inconclusive empirical evidence. Single-firm studies consistently find that job seekers applying through referrals achieve better labor-market outcomes than job seekers applying without referrals, but the evidence from job-seeker studies is mixed. To solve this puzzle, we clarify the distinction between having social capital and using contacts as a search method. We present theoretical reasons to suggest that the lack of an association between a job seeker's social capital and whether or not she uses social networks to search for a job should not be taken to imply that job seekers who use social networks to search for jobs do not benefit from using contacts. We exploit a strategic research setting, the school-to-work transition of 291 university graduates who engaged in 3,112 contemporaneous job searches, to show that although a job seeker's social capital may not affect whether or not she uses contacts to search for a job, using contacts as a job-search method does improve her job-search outcomes. We conclude by discussing the implications of our findings for the literature on job search and social networks.

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“…The longer the recall period, the larger is the loss in the accuracy of data on less salient events (Neter and Waksberg, 1964;Mathiowetz and Duncan, 1988;Pierret, 2001). While any piece of survey data could be subject to recall bias to a certain degree, the problem just might be critical with the biennial Displaced Workers Survey (DWS) because it collects information about worker displacement over a long recall period of five years (three years, starting with the 1994 DWS).…”

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Recall bias in the displaced workers survey: Are layoffs really lemons?

Song

2007

Labour Economics

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Event History Data and Survey Recall: An Analysis of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Recall Experiment

Cited by 40 publications

References 2 publications

Incidence and impact of land conflict in Uganda

Incidence and impact of land conflict in Uganda

Do Job Seekers Benefit from Contacts? A Direct Test with Contemporaneous Searches

Recall bias in the displaced workers survey: Are layoffs really lemons?

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