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| dc.title | Misreporting in Sensitive Health Behaviors and Its Impact on Treatment Effects: An Application to Intimate Partner Violence |
| dc.contributor.author | Agüero, Jorge M. |
| dc.contributor.author | Frisancho, Verónica |
| dc.contributor.orgunit | Department of Research and Chief Economist |
| dc.date.available | 2017-12-14T00:00:00 |
| dc.date.issue | 2017-12-06T00:00:00 |
| dc.description.abstract | A growing literature seeks to identify policies that could reduce intimate partner violence. However, in the absence of reliable administrative records, this violence is often measured using self-reported data from health surveys. In this paper, an experiment is conducted comparing data from such surveys against a methodology that provides greater privacy to the respondent. Non-classical measurement error in health surveys is identified as college-educated women, but not the less educated, underreport physical and sexual violence. The paper provides a low-cost solution to correct the bias in the estimation of causal effects under non-classical measurement error in the dependent variable. |
| dc.format.extent | 48 |
| dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0011808 |
| dc.identifier.url | https://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Misreporting-in-Sensitive-Health-Behaviors-and-Its-Impact-on-Treatment-Effects-An-Application-to-Intimate-Partner-Violence.pdf |
| dc.language.iso | en |
| dc.medium | Adobe PDF |
| dc.publisher | Inter-American Development Bank |
| dc.subject | Public Health Surveillance |
| dc.subject | Intimate Partner Violence |
| dc.subject | Health Behavior |
| dc.subject | Sexual Violence |
| dc.subject.keywords | Non-random measurement error;List experiments;Intimate partner violence;Treatment effects |
| dc.type | Working Papers |
| idb.identifier.pubnumber | Working Papers |
| idb.operation | RG-K1462 |