Monday 28 January 2019

Participating in a panel survey changes respondents’ labour market behaviour

an article by Ruben L. Bach (University of Mannheim, Germany) and Stephanie Eckman (RTI International,Washington DC, USA) Journal of Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society) Volume 182 Issue 1 (January 2019)

Summary

Panel survey participation can bring about unintended changes in respondents’ behaviour and/or their reporting of behaviour.

Using administrative data linked to a large panel survey, we analyse whether the survey brings about changes in respondents’ labour market behaviour. We estimate the causal effect of panel participation on the take‐up of federal labour market programmes by using instrumental variables.

Results show that panel survey participation leads to an increase in respondents’ take‐up of these measures. These results suggest that panel survey participation not only affects the reporting of behaviour, as previous studies have demonstrated, but can also alter respondents’ actual behaviour.

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