PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - d’Uva, Teresa Bago
AU  - Lindeboom, Maarten
AU  - O’Donnell, Owen
AU  - van Doorslaer, Eddy
TI  - Slipping Anchor?
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.46.4.875
DP  - 2011 Oct 02
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 875--906
VI  - 46
IP  - 4
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/46/4/875.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/46/4/875.full
SO  - J Hum Resour2011 Oct 02; 46
AB  - We propose tests of the two assumptions under which anchoring vignettes identify heterogeneity in reporting of categorical evaluations. Systematic variation in the perceived difference between any two vignette states is sufficient to reject vignette equivalence. Response consistency—the respondent uses the same response scale to evaluate the vignette and herself—is testable given sufficiently comprehensive objective indicators that independently identify response scales. Both assumptions are rejected for reporting of cognitive and physical functioning in a sample of older English individuals, although a weaker test resting on less stringent assumptions does not reject response consistency for cognition.