Arbeitspapier
Revisiting the evidence for a cardinal treatment of ordinal variables
Well-being (i.e., satisfaction, happiness) is a latent variable, impossible to observe directly. Hence, questionnaires ask people to grade their well-being in different life domains. The most common practice-comparing well-being by means of descriptive analysis or linear regressions-ignores that the underlying collected well-being information is ordinal. If the well-being function is ordinal, then monotonic transformations are allowed. We demonstrate that treating ordinal data by methods intended to be used for cardinal data may give an incorrect impression of a robust result. Particularly, we derive the conditions under which the use of cardinal method to an ordinal variable gives an illusionary sense of robustness, while in fact one can reverse the conclusion reached by using an alternative cardinal assumption. The paper provides empirical applications.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research ; No. 772
Methodological Issues: General
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions; Probabilities
Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: General
General Welfare; Well-Being
Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Other
well-being
ordinal
cardinal
dominance
Yitzhaki, Shlomo
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- Letzte Aktualisierung
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20.09.2024, 08:24 MESZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Schröder, Carsten
- Yitzhaki, Shlomo
- Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
Entstanden
- 2015