Data Collection & Survey Methodology

Another strand of my work concerns data collection and different aspects of survey methodology, from sampling and weighting techniques, to questionnaire design and survey harmonization.

I am currently a team member of the

Previously, I was part of the RAND American Life Panel.

Published papers

"The LASI-DAD Deep Phenotyping and Genomic Data for the Study of Cognition and Dementia in India" (with J. Lee et al.), Scientific Data, forthcoming.

"American Life in Realtime: a Benchmark Registry of Health Data for Equitable Precision Health" (with R.R. Chaturvedi et al.), Nature Medicine: Brief Correspondence, forthcoming.

"Real Time Measurement of Household Electronic Financial Transactions in a Population Representative Panel" (with A. Kapteyn and S. Samek), Field Methods, forthcoming.

"A Simple Question Goes a Long Way: A Wording Experiment on Bank Account Ownership" (with M. Couper), Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, 2021, smab045.

"Tracking the Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Lives of American Households" (with A. Kapteyn et al.), Survey Research Methods, Vol. 14(2): 179-186, 2020.

"Design and Methodology of the Longitudinal Aging Study in India – Diagnostic Assessment of Dementia" (with J. Lee, P.Y. Khobragade, J. Banerjee, S. Chien, P. Arokiasamy, D.E. Bloom, and A.B. Dey), Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, Vol. 68(53): 5-10, 2020.

"LASI-DAD Study: a Protocol for a Prospective Cohort Study of Late-Life Cognition and Dementia in India" (with J. Lee, J. Banerjee, P. Y. Khobragade, and A. B. Dey), BMJ Open, 2019.

Data Report and Documentation

"Harmonized LASI-DAD Documentation" (with S. Chien et al.), 2021.

"Harmonized LASI Documentation" (with S. Chien et al.), 2021.

"The National Financial Capability Study: Empirical Findings from the American Life Panel Survey - Wave 2" (with J. Burke), FINRA Report, 2019.

"Sampling and Weighting the Understanding America Study" (with A. Kapteyn, E. Meijer and H.W. Saw), CESR Working Paper No. 2019-004, 2019.

"Harmonization of Cross-National Studies of Aging to the Health and Retirement Study User Guide: Health Care Utilization and Expenditure" (with P. Hu, J. Lee and S. Park), CESR Report No. 2017-001, 2017.

"The National Financial Capability Study: Empirical Findings from the American Life Panel Survey" (with A. Kapteyn and A. Lusardi), GFLEC Report, November, 2016.

"The 2014 Survey of Consumer Payment Choice: Technical Appendix" (with K. Foster and M. Hitczenko), Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Research Data Report No. 16-04, 2016.

"The 2013 Survey of Consumer Payment Choice: Technical Appendix" (with K. Foster and M. Hitczenko), Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Research Data Report No. 15-05, 2015.

"The 2011 and 2012 Surveys of Consumer Payment Choice: Technical Appendix" (with K. Foster and M. Hitczenko), Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Research Data Report No. 14-04, 2014.

"The 2010 Survey of Consumer Payment Choice: Technical Appendix" (with K. Foster and M. Hitczenko), Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Research Data Report No. 13-03, 2013.

"Harmonization of Cross-National Studies of Aging to the Health and Retirement Study User Guide: Household Expenditure" (with A. Sachdeva, D. Jung and J. Lee), CESR Report No. 2016-002, 2016.

"Harmonization of Cross-National Studies of Aging to the Health and Retirement Study: Income Measures" (with J. Lee), RAND Corporation, WR-861/5, 2012.

"Harmonization of Cross-National Studies of Aging to the Health and Retirement Study: Wealth Measures" (with J. Lee), RAND Corporation, WR-861/6, 2012.