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We propose a novel selectivity correction procedure to deal with survey attrition, at the crossroads of the "Heckit … models, we use information on the number of attempts that were made to obtain response to the survey from each individual who …
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two independent surveys on the same initial sample of 8, 000 persons. The first one is a long telephone survey that had a … telephone survey targeted at those leaving the unemployment registers; this enriched data source has a balanced and much higher … results. Using the enriched administrative data as benchmark, we find evidence that estimates from the long telephone survey …
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Using a nationally representative longitudinal survey of lawyers in the U.S., we document a sizeable gap between men …
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Are people prone to selecting occupations with highly skewed income distributions despite minuscule chances of success? Assembling a comprehensive pool of potential teenage entrants into professional tennis (a typical winner-take-all market), we construct objective measures of relative ability...
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when it is not competitive. This prediction is then tested using data from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings in the …
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This paper establishes the presence of a substantial gender gap in the relationship between state legislature service and the subsequent pursuit of a Congressional career. The empirical approach uses a sample of mixed-gender elections to compare the differential political career progression of...
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In this paper we estimate the effect of education on lifetime earnings in Europe, by distinguishing between individuals who lived in rural or urban areas during childhood and between individuals who had access to many or few books at age ten. We instrument years of education using reforms of...
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