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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 …
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Throughout the years spanned by the U.S. 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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-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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Using a matched firm-worker dataset, we show both theoretically and empirically that positive assortative matching between firms and workers leads to an underestimation of the absolute value of wage elasticity of labor demand
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new method to correct for attrition bias. We rely on a 10-years longitudinal data set with a final attrition rate of 10 …
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Ever since Sjaastad (1962), researchers have struggled to quantify the psychic costs of migration. We monetize psychic cost as the wage premium for moving to a culturally different location. We combine administrative social security panel data with a proxy for cultural difference based on...
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-response may bias estimates. Linking Dutch survey data to administrative income data allows us to examine whether selective … responses bias the estimated relationship between parental income and children's mathematics and language test scores in grades … because they may be biased by selective non-response. The direction of such bias is difficult to predict a priori. Bias due to …
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share of immigrants in the workforce and earnings imputation rates have risen over time, imputation match bias for recent …
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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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-level records covering the whole universe of French firms. The quasi-random assignment of judges to cases reveals that judge bias … find that the uncertainty associated with the actual dispersion of judge bias is small and has a non-significant impact on …
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