Panel surveys generally suffer from "seam bias"--too few transitions observed within reference periods and too many … reported between interviews. Seam bias is likely to affect duration models severely since both the start date and the end date … Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) while correcting for seam bias in reported employment status. We develop …

Panel surveys generally suffer from "seam bias"--too few transitions observed within reference periods and too many … reported between interviews. Seam bias is likely to affect duration models severely since both the start date and the end date … Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) while correcting for seam bias in reported employment status. We develop …

women's led business and improve the business environment in order to stimulate private investment (private sector support … the willingness and ability of firms to hire women. These measures should actually address the weak capacity of the public … sector to create enough jobs to mitigate the severity of women's unemployment. …

broadening the representational theory of measurement …

coresidency bias in standard measures of intergenerational mobility: intergenerational regression coefficient (IGRC) and … the IGRC estimates are severely biased downward (average 30 percent). In contrast, the bias in IGC estimates is much lower … children's schooling. The IGC estimate suffers from lower bias because the upward bias in the estimate of the ratio of standard …

used to define household membership. This paper provides evidence on truncation bias in rank-based relative and absolute … mobility estimates in coresident samples, and compares with the bias in intergenerational regression coefficient (IGRC) and … parental education are overestimated in coresident samples. The downward bias in rank correlation is much smaller than that in …

evidence shows that rank-based measures are less affected by measurement error and life-cycle bias compared with other standard … average bias in rank correlation is less than half of that in intergenerational regression coefficient, and comparable to that … in intergenerational correlation in magnitude. The intercept estimates are biased upward, with the largest bias found in …

Measurement error in historical data distorts descriptive analyses based on binary classifications. Modern replications … of deficiencies in retrospective CPI estimates for the 19th century show that measurement issues cause misclassification …. Using various approaches to control for measurement error in 19th century US CPI data, a series of stylized facts emerge: (i …

-phase selection setup, bias due to measurement error is estimated through probabilistic editing while weight adjustment employing …Probabilistic editing has been introduced to enable valid inference using established survey sampling theory in … situations when some of the collected data points may have measurement errors and are therefore submitted to an editing process …