Nonresponse in surveys may result in a distortion of the distribution of interest. In a panel survey the participation … restates a result for Finland for the ECHP (European Community Household Panel). A second condition concerns the selectivity of … panel attrition after wave one. Here panel attrition must not depend on the income state of the previous panel wave. The …

demography is used to show that an initial bias can "fade-away" in later panel waves, if the transition laws in the observed …We propose a novel view of selection bias in longitudinal surveys. Such bias may arise from initial nonresponse in a … sample and the population are identical. Panel attrition is incorporated into the Markovian framework. Extensions to Markov …

We propose a new view of initial nonresponse bias in longitudinal surveys. Under certain conditions, an initial bias … for respondents and nonrespondents, and attrition in later panel waves must not depend on the state of the individuals …. The theory is applied to a German survey on social benefit recipience. Minor deviations from assumptions are shown to have …

to panel attrition, which are thought to worsen the bias resulting from initial nonresponse. However, under certain … conditions an initial wave nonresponse bias may vanish in later panel waves. We study such a "Fade away" of an initial …High nonresponse rates have become a rule in survey sampling. In panel surveys there occur additional sample losses due …

lives for three periods. Our results show how a paternalistic government may correct for the effects of anticipation-bias … ; adaptation ; habit-formation ; anticipation-bias ; paternalism …

tax evasion is subject to a self-serving bias. We find that tax morale is egoistically biased: Subjects with the …

equilibrium, inattention leads to inefficiently high tax rates and a taxation bias emerges. Combining structural and sufficient … find that the taxation bias is large, alters the progressivity of income taxes, and significantly reduces social welfare …