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Construction of the Earnings and Benefits File (Ebf) for Use with the Health and Retirement Survey

Mitchell, Olivia S.; Olson, Jan; Steinmeier, Thomas L. - 2021

Analysts using the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS) often require information on earnings, labor market attachment, and social security benefits in order to better understand the factors affecting retirement and well-being at older ages. To this end, several derived variables were constructed...

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Merger or Acquisition? Introduction to the Handbook of Historical Economics

Bisin, Alberto; Federico, Giovanni - 2023

The relationship between history and economics as academic disciplines is methodologically subtle and sociologically contested. If the Cliometric revolution can be characterized as an acquisition of economics by history, the most recent trends in Historical Economics appear to turn this...

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A New Mechanism to Alleviate the Crises of Confidence in Science-With an Application to the Public Goods Game

Butera, Luigi; Grossman, Philip J.; Houser, Daniel; … - 2022

Creation of empirical knowledge in economics has taken a dramatic turn in the past few decades. One feature of the new research landscape is the nature and extent to which scholars generate data. Today, in nearly every field the experimental approach plays an increasingly crucial role in testing...

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Non-Response in the American Time Use Survey : Who is Missing from the Data and How Much Does it Matter?

Abraham, Katharine G. - 2007

This paper examines non-response in a large government survey. The response rate for the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) has been below 60 percent for the first two years of its existence, raising questions about whether the results can be generalized to the target population. The paper begins...

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International Student Mobility : Growth and Dispersion

Kaushal, Neeraj - 2019

mobility – the human capital model and the migration model – across traditional and emerging destinations. Our findings suggest … that while the predictions of the migration model are generally valid in explaining student emigration to non …

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The Effect of Expected Income on Individual Migration Decisions

Kennan, John; Walker, James R. - 2021

The paper develops a tractable econometric model of optimal migration, focusing on expected income as the main economic … influence on migration. The model improves on previous work in two respects: it covers optimal sequences of location decisions … panel data from the NLSY on white males with a high school education. Our main conclusion is that interstate migration …

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How Social Processes Distort Measurement : The Impact of Survey Nonresponse on Estimates of Volunteer Work

Abraham, Katharine G. - 2013

Estimates of volunteering in the United States vary greatly from survey to survey and do not show the decline over time common to other measures of social capital. We argue that these anomalies are caused by the social processes that determine survey participation, in particular the propensity...

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Detecting Discrimination in Audit and Correspondence Studies

Neumark, David - 2010

Audit studies testing for discrimination have been criticized because applicants from different groups may not appear identical to employers. Correspondence studies address this criticism by using fictitious paper applicants whose qualifications can be made identical across groups. However,...

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Retirement Research Using the Health and Retirement Survey

Gustman, Alan L. - 2010

This paper highlights unanswered research questions in the economics of retirement, and shows how these issues can be addressed using the new Health and Retirement Survey (HRS). Unique features of the survey are described including administrative records on earnings and social security benefits,...

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Analyzing Social Experiments as Implemented : A Reexamination of the Evidence from the Highscope Perry Preschool Program

Heckman, James J. - 2010

Social experiments are powerful sources of information about the effectiveness of interventions. In practice, initial randomization plans are almost always compromised. Multiple hypotheses are frequently tested. "Significant" effects are often reported with p-values that do not account for...

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