Data Markets and the Production of Surveys
分析调查数据生产中，需求方（如调查机构）作为买方垄断者如何最优补偿样本提供者，以及这种补偿与数据估计的关系，并讨论美国市场中隐含的公共工资规定对统计的影响。
The production of data, and the functioning of the market for observations, are universal concerns to all fields of positive economics. Economists, however, have typically placed greater emphasis on systematically analyzing the consumption of data than on considering its production. In the production of data through surveys, an important input market is that of labour, in which a demander trades observations with the supplying sample members. This paper analyses optimal monopsony compensation in such data markets, the important relationship it bears to estimation using the data that are obtained, and the statistical effects of implicit public wage regulations that are present in U.S. markets for observations.