Can we trust an adult's estimate of parental school attainment? Disentangling social desirability bias and random measurement error

Field Methods

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 26-45

  Godoy, Ricardo ^a   Reyes García, Victoria ^a,e   Tanner, Susan ^b   Leonard, William R ^c   McDade, Thomas W ^c   Huanca, Tomás ^d  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CBIDSI Centro Boliviano de Investigacion y de Desarrollo Socio Integral   (Bolivia)

^e UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Amazon; Bolivia; Education; Human capital; Informant accuracy; Reliability coefficient; Social desirability bias; Tsimane'

Indexed keywords

EID: 44649091375     PISSN: 1525822X     EISSN: 15523969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1525822X07309356     Document Type: Article

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