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. …

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 …

There are three major points to this article: 1. Measurement error causes biases in regression fits. The line one would … exposure with error. 2. The effects of measurement error vary from study-to-study. It is dangerous to take measurement error … corrections derived from one study and apply them to data from entirely different studies or populations. 3. Measurement error can …

sub-population can lead to selection bias on estimates of inequality. This paper draws on the approach by Manski (1989 … of non-respondents. The theory is illustrated measuring earnings inequality (over time and between samples) for post …