Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/173902 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
IDB Working Paper Series No. IDB-WP-853
Publisher: 
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Washington, DC
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.
Subjects: 
Non-random measurement error
List experiments
Intimate partner violence
Treatment effects
JEL: 
C83
C21
I12
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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