Becketti, Sean, et al - In: Journal of Labor Economics 6 (1988) 4, pp. 472-92
This article considers the representativeness of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics over its fourteen-year history from 1968 to 1981, given the dynamics of entry and exit from the panel. By 1981, 40 percent of the original members had left the sample and were replaced by new entrants who joined...