An introduction to anchoring vignettes

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 174, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 569-574

  Chevalier, Arnaud ^a,b   Fielding, Antony ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IZA   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anchoring vignette; Self assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960003228     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2011.00703.x     Document Type: Article

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