Role of Incentives in Data Construction

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
Stephanie Eckman
Researcher & Data Scientist

I collect high quality data for social science and model training