Tail and center rounding of probabilistic expectations in the Health and Retirement Study
健康与退休研究中概率预期的尾部与中心舍入
We study rounding of numerical expectations in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) between 2002 and 2014. We document that respondent-specific rounding patterns across questions in individual waves are quite stable across waves. We discover a tendency by about half of the respondents to provide more refined responses in the tails of the 0–100 scale than the center. In contrast, only about five percent of the respondents give more refined responses in the center than the…