A Light-Touch Method to Improve Accurate Reporting of IDP’s Food Consumption

Misreporting is a well-known challenge for researchers in social sciences. This issue is especially prevalent if incentives for misreporting exist, for example, to claim certain benefits or hide illegal behavior. Internally displaced persons are a...

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Main Authors:	Kaplan, Lennart, Pape, Utz Johann, Walsh, James
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2018
Subjects:	CONSUMPTION POVERTY QUESTIONNAIRE DESIGN IDPs INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSON INCENTIVES
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/335911533559402425/Eliciting-accurate-responses-to-consumption-questions-among-IDPs-in-South-Sudan-using-honesty-primes http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30229

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spelling	okr-10986-302292021-06-14T10:08:34Z A Light-Touch Method to Improve Accurate Reporting of IDP’s Food Consumption Kaplan, Lennart Pape, Utz Johann Walsh, James CONSUMPTION POVERTY QUESTIONNAIRE DESIGN IDPs INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSON INCENTIVES Misreporting is a well-known challenge for researchers in social sciences. This issue is especially prevalent if incentives for misreporting exist, for example, to claim certain benefits or hide illegal behavior. Internally displaced persons are a population that is highly dependent on aid receipts and, thus, have strong incentives to underreport consumption levels. To improve reporting for such vulnerable populations, this paper proposes to integrate "honesty primes" into the consumption module of the questionnaire. Honesty primes are unconscious stimuli that induce a certain cognition or behavior. The study assesses the effectiveness of a bundle of randomly assigned primes within a sample of internally displaced persons in South Sudan. In line with the main hypothesis, positive and significant effects arise for low consumption quantiles, especially consumption quantities that are more susceptible to manipulation. Hence, honesty primes can act as a cost-effective tool to induce more accurate reporting. Further research is needed to identify more effective primes for the respective population of interest. 2018-08-15T18:47:46Z 2018-08-15T18:47:46Z 2018-08 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/335911533559402425/Eliciting-accurate-responses-to-consumption-questions-among-IDPs-in-South-Sudan-using-honesty-primes http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30229 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8539 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa South Sudan
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spellingShingle	CONSUMPTION POVERTY QUESTIONNAIRE DESIGN IDPs INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSON INCENTIVES Kaplan, Lennart Pape, Utz Johann Walsh, James A Light-Touch Method to Improve Accurate Reporting of IDP’s Food Consumption
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description	Misreporting is a well-known challenge for researchers in social sciences. This issue is especially prevalent if incentives for misreporting exist, for example, to claim certain benefits or hide illegal behavior. Internally displaced persons are a population that is highly dependent on aid receipts and, thus, have strong incentives to underreport consumption levels. To improve reporting for such vulnerable populations, this paper proposes to integrate "honesty primes" into the consumption module of the questionnaire. Honesty primes are unconscious stimuli that induce a certain cognition or behavior. The study assesses the effectiveness of a bundle of randomly assigned primes within a sample of internally displaced persons in South Sudan. In line with the main hypothesis, positive and significant effects arise for low consumption quantiles, especially consumption quantities that are more susceptible to manipulation. Hence, honesty primes can act as a cost-effective tool to induce more accurate reporting. Further research is needed to identify more effective primes for the respective population of interest.
format	Working Paper
author	Kaplan, Lennart Pape, Utz Johann Walsh, James
author_facet	Kaplan, Lennart Pape, Utz Johann Walsh, James
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title	A Light-Touch Method to Improve Accurate Reporting of IDP’s Food Consumption
title_short	A Light-Touch Method to Improve Accurate Reporting of IDP’s Food Consumption
title_full	A Light-Touch Method to Improve Accurate Reporting of IDP’s Food Consumption
title_fullStr	A Light-Touch Method to Improve Accurate Reporting of IDP’s Food Consumption
title_full_unstemmed	A Light-Touch Method to Improve Accurate Reporting of IDP’s Food Consumption
title_sort	light-touch method to improve accurate reporting of idp’s food consumption
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2018
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/335911533559402425/Eliciting-accurate-responses-to-consumption-questions-among-IDPs-in-South-Sudan-using-honesty-primes http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30229
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A Light-Touch Method to Improve Accurate Reporting of IDP’s Food Consumption

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