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. This could be the result of a bias caused by standard estimation error. Using German social security records we show that … the effect of this bias is substantial in samples with limited inter-firm movement. The correlation between worker and … ; limited mobility bias …
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The belief that home ownership makes people happy is probably one of the most widespread intuitive theories of happiness. However, whether it is accurate is an open question. Based on individual panel data, we explore whether home buyers systematically overestimate the life satisfaction...
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Throughout the years spanned by the US Vital Statistics Linked Birth and Infant Death Data (1983-2002), birth weights are measured most precisely for children of white and highly educated mothers. As a result, less healthy children, who are more likely to be of low socioeconomic status, are...
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This paper introduces bias-corrected estimators for nonlinear panel data models with both time invariant and time …/selection bias. We then estimate the primary equation by fixed effects including an appropriately constructed control function from … both steps might employ nonlinear fixed effects procedures it is necessary to bias adjust the estimates due to the …
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. The most severe problem is selection bias as a result of selective sorting into neighbourhoods. This paper argues that in … (selection bias) are also critical to fully understand the neighbourhood context itself. It is thus remarkable that residential …. -- neighbourhoods ; selective mobility ; neighbourhood effects ; selection bias ; migration ; residential mobility …
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-cycle bias if the snapshots cannot mimic lifetime outcomes. Using uniquely long series of Swedish income data, we show that … current empirical strategies do not eliminate such bias. We focus on the widely adopted generalized errors-in-variables model … and find that the remaining bias is substantial (20% of the true elasticity from left-side measurement error at the most …
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estimates for a number of reasons. Consequently, if we neglect this potential bias in OLS when estimating the gender wage gap …
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This paper provides an expression for the bias of the OLS estimator of the schooling coefficient in a simple static … coefficient is biased upward, and the bias is increasing with potential labor-market experience and the degree of earnings … persistence. In addition, NLSY data are used to show that the magnitude of the persistence bias is non-negligible, and the bias …
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This paper provides the first available evidence on overeducation/overskilling based on AlmaLaurea data. We focus on jobs held 5 years after graduation by pre-reform graduates in 2005. Overeducation/overskilling are relatively high - at 11.4 and 8% - when compared to EU economies. Ceteris...
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