How Survey Design Affects Inference Regarding Health Perceptions and Outcomes

Anneke Exterkate, Robin L. Lumsdaine

NBER Working Paper No. 17244
Issued in July 2011

---- Acknowledgements -----

The authors are grateful to Heather Anderson, James Banks, Martin Evans, Rachel Griffiths, Alastair Hall, Denise Whalen, and seminar participants at the London School of Economics and the University of Manchester for comments on an earlier draft. Financial support for the first author from the Van Beek Fonds is gratefully acknowledged. This paper was written while Lumsdaine served part-time on an Intergovernmental Personnel Agreement (IPA) with the National Institute on Aging. Address correspondence to Robin L. Lumsdaine. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research or the National Institute on Aging.

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