Arie Kapteyn
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 115651 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Arie Kapteyn |
| NOMBRES | Arie |
| APELLIDO | Kapteyn |
| FIRMA | KAPTEYN A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Southern California |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1855-5528 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 41 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 203 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1977 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Does additional education affect memory consistently? An analysis of compulsory schooling reforms across Europe and U.S
BACKGROUND: A growing literature suggests that education positively influences cognitive function in later life. However, the magnitude and consistency of this effect across study designs and populations remain open questions. METHODS: This study re-examines results from the quasi-experimental studies of compulsory schooling reforms in Europe and the United States that estimate the causal effect of education on late-life memory performance. We us…
Life Satisfaction Responds to Major Life Events; Affect not so much
This study examines how major life events influence subjective well-being, focusing on differences between life satisfaction and momentary affect. Using Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) data from a nationally representative panel of adults aged 50 and older, we analyze responses to significant life events, including health issues, financial shocks, and bereavements. Participants reported their wellbeing during baseline “random bursts” and su…
A tale of Work from Home in the aftermath of the Great Recession
Cognitive Functioning and the Quality of Survey Responses
Ecological risk and protective factors for food insufficiency in Los Angeles County during the Covid-19 pandemic
Objective: The COVID-19 pandemic increased food insufficiency: a severe form of food insecurity. Drawing on an ecological framework, we aimed to understand factors that contributed to changes in food insufficiency from April to December 2020, in a large urban population hard hit by the pandemic. Design: We conducted internet surveys every 2 weeks in April–December 2020, including a subset of items from the Food Insecurity Experience Scale. Longit…
Using Item Response Times in Online Questionnaires to Detect Mild Cognitive Impairment
RTs for survey items are a potential early indicator of CIND, which may enhance analyses of predictors, correlates, and consequences of cognitive impairment in online survey research
Real Time Measurement of Household Financial Electronic Transactions in a Population Representative Panel
From September 2016 to September 2018, we piloted the collection of financial transaction and account balance data in the Understanding America Study (UAS), a probability-based Internet panel representative of the U.S. adult population. Unlike previous studies relying on electronic transaction information from financial aggregators, which typically contain very little information on consumer characteristics, our data allow us to explore heterogen…
A Tale of Hours Worked for Pay from Home Before and after the Great Recession
Born to be wild
The second-to-fourth digit length ratio of an individual's hand (digit ratio) is a putative biomarker for prenatal exposure to testosterone. We examine the hypothesized negative association between the digit ratio and the preference for risk taking within a large U.S. population survey. Our statistical framework provides a cardinal proxy for the true digit ratio based on ordinal digit ratio measurements and accounts for measurement error under th…
Identifying Cognitive Impairment Among Older Participants in a Nationally Representative Internet Panel
The results permit analyses of predictors, correlates, and consequences of cognitive impairment in web surveys where relevant cognitive test and functional abilities items are available. We discuss challenges and caveats that may affect the findings
Using Attributes of Survey Items to Predict Response Times May Benefit Survey Research
Researchers have become increasingly interested in response times to survey items as a measure of cognitive effort. We used machine learning to develop a prediction model of response times based on 41 attributes of survey items (e.g., question length, response format, linguistic features) collected in a large, general population sample. The developed algorithm can be used to derive reference values for expected response times for most commonly us…
Behavioral Impediments to Valuing Annuities
This paper examines two behavioral factors that diminish people's ability to value a lifetime income stream or annuity, drawing on a randomized experiment with about 4,000 adults in a U.S. nationally representative sample. We find that increasing the complexity of the annuity choice reduces respondents' ability to value the annuity, measured by the difference between the sell and buy values they assign to the annuity. When we limit narrow choice …
Income growth is unlikely to help, but we can learn from international comparisons
The paper by Paul Frijters, Andrew E. Clark, Christian Krekel and Richard Layard is a timely attempt to move subjective wellbeing (SWB) to the center of policy attention. I am essentially making three points. First of all, for this enterprise to be successful, one needs to have very solid evidence on what improves SWB and what does not. If policies are proposed that turn out not to improve SWB (or do so far less than expected), then the enterpris…
Mental Distress in the United States at the Beginning of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Objectives. To assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental distress in US adults. Methods. Participants were 5065 adults from the Understanding America Study, a probability-based Internet panel representative of the US adult population. The main exposure was survey completion date (March 10–16, 2020). The outcome was mental distress measured via the 4-item version of the Patient Health Questionnaire. Results. Among states with 50 or more…
Sampling and Weighting the Understanding America Study
What they say and what they do
BACKGROUND: Physical activity (PA) is important for maintaining health, but there are fundamental unanswered questions on how best it should be measured. METHODS: We measured PA in the Netherlands (n=748), the USA (n=540) and England (n=254), both by a 7 day wrist-worn accelerometer and by self-reports. The self-reports included a global self-report on PA and a report on the frequency of vigorous, moderate and mild activity. RESULTS: The self-rep…
Asking about social circles improves election predictions
Use of Internet panels to conduct surveys
Dimensions of Subjective Well-Being
A Longitudinal Study of Well-Being of Older Europeans
The Rand Continuous 2012 Presidential Election Poll
The RAND Continuous 2012 Presidential Election Poll (CPEP) was conducted within the American Life Panel, an Internet panel recruited through traditional probability sampling to ensure representativeness. Because the CPEP asks the same respondents repeatedly about their voting preferences, observed changes are attributable primarily to individuals changing their minds and not to random sampling fluctuations. The CPEP asks respondents to state in t…
Subjective measures of risk aversion, fixed costs, and portfolio choice
What can we learn from (and about) global aging
Although aging is a global phenomenon, there are large differences across countries in both the speed of aging and the current age composition. Furthermore, countries adopt vastly different policies. This creates a natural laboratory that scientists can use to understand how policies affect outcomes. I discuss under what circumstances data from different countries can be used for inference about policy effects. Although comparable health and reti…
Selection Bias in Web Surveys and the Use of Propensity Scores
Web surveys are a popular survey mode, but the subpopulation with Internet access may not represent the population of interest. The authors investigate whether adjusting using weights or matching on a small set of variables makes the distributions of target variables representative of the population. This application has a rich sampling design; the Internet sample is part of an existing probability sample, the Health and Retirement Study, that is…
Vignettes and Self-Reports of Work Disability in the United States and the Netherlands
In contrast to the believed similarity in their health outcomes, workers in different Western countries report very different rates of work disability. Using new data from the United States and the Netherlands, we offer a partial resolution to this paradox. We find that observed differences in reported work disability largely stem from the fact that Dutch respondents have a lower threshold in reporting whether they have a work disability than Ame…
Dimensions of Subjective Well-Being
A Disaggregated Analysis of the Allocation of Time within the Household
In this paper the authors estimate a model of the allocation of time within the household using data that allows them to d istinguish between a large number of time uses. The model is explicitly derived within a utility maximization framework and can be estimated by relatively simpl e two-step estimation procedures. The model providesa natural framework to test implications of the more restrictive models of Reuben Gronau_(1977, 1980) and John Gra…
Selection Bias in Web Surveys and the Use of Propensity Scores
Web surveys are a popular survey mode, but the subpopulation with Internet access may not represent the population of interest. The authors investigate whether adjusting using weights or matching on a small set of variables makes the distributions of target variables representative of the population. This application has a rich sampling design; the Internet sample is part of an existing probability sample, the Health and Retirement Study, that is…
The individual welfare function
Habit Formation, Interdependent Preferences and Demographic Effects in the Almost Ideal Demand System
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Subjective measures of risk aversion, fixed costs, and portfolio choice
Mental Distress in the United States at the Beginning of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Objectives. To assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental distress in US adults. Methods. Participants were 5065 adults from the Understanding America Study, a probability-based Internet panel representative of the US adult population. The main exposure was survey completion date (March 10–16, 2020). The outcome was mental distress measured via the 4-item version of the Patient Health Questionnaire. Results. Among states with 50 or more…
Noncoverage and nonresponse in an Internet survey
The Rand Continuous 2012 Presidential Election Poll
The RAND Continuous 2012 Presidential Election Poll (CPEP) was conducted within the American Life Panel, an Internet panel recruited through traditional probability sampling to ensure representativeness. Because the CPEP asks the same respondents repeatedly about their voting preferences, observed changes are attributable primarily to individuals changing their minds and not to random sampling fluctuations. The CPEP asks respondents to state in t…
Empirical evidence on preference formation
Asking about social circles improves election predictions
Estimation of Rationed and Unrationed Household Labour Supply Functions Using Flexible Functional Forms
Journal Article Estimation of Rationed and Unrationed Household Labour Supply Functions Using Flexible Functional Forms Get access Peter Kooreman, Peter Kooreman Tilburg University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Arie Kapteyn Arie Kapteyn Tilburg University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 96, Issue 382, 1 June 1986, Pages 398–412, https:…
A Longitudinal Study of Well-Being of Older Europeans
What can we learn from (and about) global aging
Although aging is a global phenomenon, there are large differences across countries in both the speed of aging and the current age composition. Furthermore, countries adopt vastly different policies. This creates a natural laboratory that scientists can use to understand how policies affect outcomes. I discuss under what circumstances data from different countries can be used for inference about policy effects. Although comparable health and reti…
The measurement of household cost functions
Identifying Cognitive Impairment Among Older Participants in a Nationally Representative Internet Panel
The results permit analyses of predictors, correlates, and consequences of cognitive impairment in web surveys where relevant cognitive test and functional abilities items are available. We discuss challenges and caveats that may affect the findings
What they say and what they do
BACKGROUND: Physical activity (PA) is important for maintaining health, but there are fundamental unanswered questions on how best it should be measured. METHODS: We measured PA in the Netherlands (n=748), the USA (n=540) and England (n=254), both by a 7 day wrist-worn accelerometer and by self-reports. The self-reports included a global self-report on PA and a report on the frequency of vigorous, moderate and mild activity. RESULTS: The self-rep…
Hypothetical Intertemporal Consumption Choices
Journal Article Hypothetical Intertemporal Consumption Choices Get access Arie Kapteyn, Arie Kapteyn Center, Tilburg University RAND Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Federica Teppa Federica Teppa Center, Tilburg University RAND Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 113, Issue 486, March 2003, Pages C140–C152, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0297.0…
Using Attributes of Survey Items to Predict Response Times May Benefit Survey Research
Researchers have become increasingly interested in response times to survey items as a measure of cognitive effort. We used machine learning to develop a prediction model of response times based on 41 attributes of survey items (e.g., question length, response format, linguistic features) collected in a large, general population sample. The developed algorithm can be used to derive reference values for expected response times for most commonly us…
The Poverty Line
In this paper, a new approach to defining the poverty line is proposed in which family heads are asked what they consider a minimal income level for their own family. It was found that the respondents appeared to specify higher amounts, the greater their actual income and family size, and that the relationship was loglinear. For each family size there is an income level at which a respondent's stated minimum income is equal to his actual income. …
Maximizing or Satisficing
T HE hypothesis that maximization underlies human behaviour is perhaps the most widely accepted paradigm among economists. Particularly in the study of consumer behaviour, numerous models have been built upon the hypothesis of maximization. Reviews of these models can inter alia be found in Houthakker (1961), Brown and Deaton (1972) and Barten (1977). The testing of the maximization hypothesis (HM) in real life situations appears to be a complica…
The Poverty Line--A Pilot Survey in Europe
Empirical evidence on preference formation
The Relativity of Utility
The individual welfare function
The individual welfare function
Estimation of Rationed and Unrationed Household Labour Supply Functions Using Flexible Functional Forms
Journal Article Estimation of Rationed and Unrationed Household Labour Supply Functions Using Flexible Functional Forms Get access Peter Kooreman, Peter Kooreman Tilburg University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Arie Kapteyn Arie Kapteyn Tilburg University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 96, Issue 382, 1 June 1986, Pages 398–412, https:…
A Disaggregated Analysis of the Allocation of Time within the Household
In this paper the authors estimate a model of the allocation of time within the household using data that allows them to d istinguish between a large number of time uses. The model is explicitly derived within a utility maximization framework and can be estimated by relatively simpl e two-step estimation procedures. The model providesa natural framework to test implications of the more restrictive models of Reuben Gronau_(1977, 1980) and John Gra…
Quantity Rationing and Concavity in a Flexible Household Labor Supply Model
Arie Kapteyn, Peter Kooreman, Arthur van Soest, Quantity Rationing and Concavity in a Flexible Household Labor Supply Model, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 72, No. 1 (Feb., 1990), pp. 55-62
Modelling Individual Choice
Habit Formation, Interdependent Preferences and Demographic Effects in the Almost Ideal Demand System
SYSTEM~R ob Al~ssie and Arir
The measurement of household cost functions
Positive political economy
This book investigates how observed differences in institutions affect political and economic outcomes in various social, economic, and political systems. It also examines how the institutions themselves change and develop in response to individual and collective beliefs, preferences, and strategies. This volume tackles both monetary and real topics in an integrated way, and represents the first coherent empirical investigation of positive models…
Hypothetical Intertemporal Consumption Choices
Journal Article Hypothetical Intertemporal Consumption Choices Get access Arie Kapteyn, Arie Kapteyn Center, Tilburg University RAND Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Federica Teppa Federica Teppa Center, Tilburg University RAND Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 113, Issue 486, March 2003, Pages C140–C152, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0297.0…
Vignettes and Self-Reports of Work Disability in the United States and the Netherlands
In contrast to the believed similarity in their health outcomes, workers in different Western countries report very different rates of work disability. Using new data from the United States and the Netherlands, we offer a partial resolution to this paradox. We find that observed differences in reported work disability largely stem from the fact that Dutch respondents have a lower threshold in reporting whether they have a work disability than Ame…
Noncoverage and nonresponse in an Internet survey
Selection Bias in Web Surveys and the Use of Propensity Scores
Web surveys are a popular survey mode, but the subpopulation with Internet access may not represent the population of interest. The authors investigate whether adjusting using weights or matching on a small set of variables makes the distributions of target variables representative of the population. This application has a rich sampling design; the Internet sample is part of an existing probability sample, the Health and Retirement Study, that is…
What can we learn from (and about) global aging
Although aging is a global phenomenon, there are large differences across countries in both the speed of aging and the current age composition. Furthermore, countries adopt vastly different policies. This creates a natural laboratory that scientists can use to understand how policies affect outcomes. I discuss under what circumstances data from different countries can be used for inference about policy effects. Although comparable health and reti…
Subjective measures of risk aversion, fixed costs, and portfolio choice
A Longitudinal Study of Well-Being of Older Europeans
The Rand Continuous 2012 Presidential Election Poll
The RAND Continuous 2012 Presidential Election Poll (CPEP) was conducted within the American Life Panel, an Internet panel recruited through traditional probability sampling to ensure representativeness. Because the CPEP asks the same respondents repeatedly about their voting preferences, observed changes are attributable primarily to individuals changing their minds and not to random sampling fluctuations. The CPEP asks respondents to state in t…
Use of Internet panels to conduct surveys
Dimensions of Subjective Well-Being
What they say and what they do
BACKGROUND: Physical activity (PA) is important for maintaining health, but there are fundamental unanswered questions on how best it should be measured. METHODS: We measured PA in the Netherlands (n=748), the USA (n=540) and England (n=254), both by a 7 day wrist-worn accelerometer and by self-reports. The self-reports included a global self-report on PA and a report on the frequency of vigorous, moderate and mild activity. RESULTS: The self-rep…
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