Survey Design and the Analysis of Satisfaction
利用英国家庭追踪调查中的两个准实验，分析调查设计对报告工作满意度的影响，发现看似微小的设计差异会导致计量结果出现显著偏差，尤其是性别差异多为调查设计的人为产物。
We analyze the effect of survey design on reported job satisfaction by exploiting two quasi-experiments in the British Household Panel Survey: a change in question design and parallel use of different interview modes. We show that apparently minor differences in survey design lead to substantial biases in econometric results, particularly on gender differences. The common empirical finding that women care less about wages and prefer to work fewer hours than men appears largely an artifact of survey design rather than a true behavioral difference. © 2011 The President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.