Do People Mean What They Say? Implications for Subjective Survey Data

By Marianne Bertrand, Sendhil Mullainathan. 2001

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Income and happiness: Evidence, explanations and economic implications (2006, background): “One commonly-cited reason is that happiness is hard to measure directly, and economists have expressed doubts about attempts to do so (see, for example, Bertrand and Mullainathan, 2001).”
The Life Satisfaction Approach to Environmental Valuation (2010, background): “11 In order to assess the importance of these findings for the LSA, it is useful to integrate them into a measurement error framework (Bertrand and Mullainathan 2001).”
Financial credibility, ownership, and financing constraints in private firms (2011, neutral): “A potential limitation of this measure could be that some managers simply tend to have a high propensity to complain about financing constraints, regardless of which actual constraints they may face (e.g., Bertrand & Mullainathan, 2001).”
Do Wage Cuts Damage Work Morale? Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment (2013, background): “The computer application (see Figure 1) in which they entered the details of 5The announcement said “The hourly wage is projected to be e15,” (the exact German wording was “Ihr Stundenlohn beträgt voraussichtlich e15”), in order to leave room for later wage changes without cheating. the books…”
Interpersonal trust and welfare state support (2015, background): “…it is important to note that we are aware that respondents’ answers might be affected by several factors including the framing or phrasing of the question, social desirability, or even respondents’ inaccuracy regarding their own true attitudes (Bertrand and Mullainathan, 2001; Hillman, 2010).”
Attribute Processing, Heuristics, and Preference Construction in Choice Analysis (2009, background): “…of responses to such questions (e.g., ‘which attributes did you ignore?’ or ‘which attributes did you add up?’) is not without controversy (see Bertrand and Mullainathan 2001), with preliminary evidence suggesting that the marginal WTP, when the responses to supplementary intention…”
Money Does Matter! Evidence from Increasing Real Income and Life Satisfaction in East Germany Following Reunification (2004, neutral): “…1996; Korpi, 1997; Oswald, 1997; Theodossiou, 1998; Winkelmann and Winkelmann, 1998; Kahneman et al., 1999; Frey and Stutzer, 2000; Frijters, 2000; Bertrand and Mullainathan, 2001; Clark et al., 2001; Di Tella et al., 2001; McBride, 2001; Ravallion and Lokshin, 2001; Easterlin, 2002;…”
New institutional accounting and IFRS (2011, background): “For example, Bertrand and Mullainathan (2001) present a strong case against using subjective variables derived from surveys because they often cannot be used as dependent variables given that the measurement error in these subjective variables is likely causally correlated with the explanatory…”
Cooperation, trust, and social capital in Southeast Asian urban slums (2004, background): “3 See Carpenter (2002a) and Bertrand and Mullainathan (2001) for an expanded discussion of the difficulties of using surveys to elicit behavioral data.”
Exploring the economic and social determinants of psychological well‐being and perceived social support in England (2005, background): “In contrast, it is well known that economists have traditionally been more reluctant to use self-reported subjective measures of well-being (Bertrand and Mullainathan, 2001) owing to concerns about the interpretation of such variables and the validity of interpersonal comparisons.”