Participating in A Panel Survey Changes Respondents' Labour Market Behaviour. (30th April 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bach, Ruben L.; Eckman, Stephanie
• Is Part Of: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Volume 182:Number 1(2019)
• Page Start: 263
• Page End: 281
• Publication Date: 2018-04-30
• Subjects: Administrative data -- Instrumental variable -- Longitudinal data -- Panel conditioning -- Treatment effects; Social sciences -- Statistical methods -- Periodicals; Statistics -- Periodicals; 300.15195
• DOI: 10.1111/rssa.12367
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0964-1998

Abstract

Summary: Panel survey participation can bring about unintended changes in respondents' behaviour and/or their reporting of behaviour. Using administrative data linked to a large panel survey, we analyse whether the survey brings about changes in respondents' labour market behaviour. We estimate the causal effect of panel participation on the take-up of federal labour market programmes by using instrumental variables. Results show that panel survey participation leads to an increase in respondents' take-up of these measures. These results suggest that panel survey participation not only affects the reporting of behaviour, as previous studies have demonstrated, but can also alter respondents' actual behaviour.