Do labor statistics depend on how and to whom the questions are asked? Results from a survey experiment in Tanzania

World Bank Economic Review

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 418-447

  Bardasi, Elena ^a   Beegle, Kathleen ^a   Dillon, Andrew ^b   Serneels, Pieter ^c  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; EMPLOYMENT; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; LABOR MARKET;

TANZANIA;

EID: 84855803933     PISSN: 02586770     EISSN: 1564698X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/wber/lhr022     Document Type: Article

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