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cemmap Working Papers
November 2007 CWP26/07
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Semiparametric methods for the measurement of latent attitudes and the estimation of their behavioural consequences
Type: cemmap Working Papers
Authors: Richard H Spady
ISSN: 1753-9196

We model attitudes as latent variables that induce stochastic dominance relations in (item) responses. Observable characteristics that affect attitudes can be incorporated into the analysis to improve the measurement of the attitudes; the measurements are posterior distributions that condition on the responses and characteristics of each respondent. Methods to use these measurements to characterize the relation between attitudes and behaviour are developed and implemented.

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