Role of Incentives in Data Construction
Feb 13, 2023
I am interested in how the incentives of those who collect or produce data impact the quality of the data. In surveys, the motivations of both interviewers and respondents can shape the data that are collected. Administrative data quality is affected by the interests of the firms and people who record it. And often the quality of training data produced by crowd workers or other types of human-in-the-loop AI is similarly impacted by the incentives of those doing the coding.
Stephanie Eckman
Researcher & Data Scientist
I collect high quality data for social science and model training
Publications
Filter questions are used to administer follow-up questions to eligible respondents while allowing respondents who are not eligible to …
Jessica Daikeler, Ruben Bach, Henning Silber, Stephanie Eckman
Many surveys aim to achieve high response rates to keep bias due to nonresponse low. However, research has shown that the relationship …
Ruben L. Bach, Stephanie Eckman, Jessica Daikeler
To avoid asking respondents questions that do not apply to them, surveys often use filter questions that determine routing into …
Stephanie Eckman, Frauke Kreuter, Antje Kirchner, Annette Jaeckle, Roger Tourangeau, Stanley Presser
Events
Many large-scale government surveys do not have the budget or time to conduct experiments to assess the effects of questionnaire …
Mar 2, 2021 12:30 PM
virtual
Stephanie Eckman
Motivated misreporting occurs when respondents give incorrect responses to questions to shorten a survey interview. Previous research …
Jun 12, 2020 8:30 AM
Stephanie Eckman
Do respondents underreport purchases in later waves to avoid follow up questions? CE respondents take part in four waves of the …
Jul 31, 2019 12:00 PM
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Washington DC
Stephanie Eckman, Ruben Bach