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Which Mexicans Are white? : enumerator-assigned race in the 1930 Census and the socioeconomic integration of Mexican Americans

Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2023

The authors explore unique complete-count data from the 1930 Census in which a respondent's race was assigned by … enumerators and "Mexican" was one of the possible responses. Census enumerators frequently and selectively assigned a non …'s socioeconomic attainment. The propensity for Census enumerators to identify Mexican Americans as white varied enormously across U …

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Socio-economic segregation in European capital cities : increasing separation between poor and rich

Musterd, Sako; Marcińczak, Szymon; Ham, Maarten van; … - 2015

used from national censuses and registers for the years 2001 and 2011. The main conclusion is that socio …

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The CPS citizenship question and survey refusals : causal and semi-causal evidence featuring a two-stage regression discontinuity design

Bernhardt, Robert; Wunnava, Phanindra V. - 2020

The unsuccessful attempt to add a citizenship question to the Census has drawn attention to citizenship questions on …

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Strategic fertility behaviour, early childhood human capital investments and gender roles in Albania

Grogan, Louise Anne - 2018

Preferences for male children in Albania are shown to have persisted through nearly half a century of communist rule, and twenty five years of economic transition. Substantial contemporary birth masculinisation is concentrated amongst higher order births. Fertility falls strongly when a...

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Mismeasured household size and its implications for the identification of economies of scale

Halliday, Timothy J. (contributor) - 2008

We consider the possibility that demographic variables are measured with errors which arise because household surveys measure demographic structures at a point-in-time, whereas household composition evolves throughout the survey period. We construct and estimate sharp bounds on household size...

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Misclassification errors and the underestimation of US unemployment rates

Feng, Shuaizhang; Hu, Yingyao - 2010

Using recent results in the measurement error literature, we show that the official U.S. unemployment rates substantially underestimate the true levels of unemployment, due to misclassification errors in labor force status in Current Population Surveys. Our closed-form identification of the...

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Is earnings nonresponse ignorable?

Bollinger, Christopher R.; Hirsch, Barry T. - 2010

Earnings nonresponse in the Current Population Survey is roughly 30% in the monthly surveys and 20% in the annual March survey. Even if nonresponse is random, severe bias attaches to wage equation coefficient estimates on attributes not matched in the earnings imputation hot deck. If nonresponse...

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The British household panel survey and its income data

Jenkins, Stephen - 2010

This paper provides a self-contained introduction to the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), concentrating on aspects relevant to analysis of the distribution of household income. I discuss BHPS design features and how data on net household income are derived. The BHPS net household income...

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Using the P90/P10 index to measure US inequality trends with current population survey data : a view from inside the Census Bureau vaults

Burkhauser, Richard V. (contributor); … - 2007

The March Current Population Survey (CPS) is the primary data source for estimation of levels and trends in labor earnings and income inequality in the USA. Time-inconsistency problems related to top coding in theses data have led many researchers to use the ratio of the 90th and 10th...

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Noncitizen coverage and its effects on U.S. population statistics

Brown, J. David; Heggeness, Misty L.; Murray-Close, Marta - 2023

We produce 2020 population estimates using 31 administrative record (AR) sources. Our AR census national population … estimate is 1.8% greater than the 2020 Demographic Analysis high estimate, 3.0% more than the 2020 Census count, and 3 … unknown legal status, can explain the higher AR census estimate. About 19.8% of AR census noncitizens have addresses that …

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