decades of the twentieth century, significant race-, income-, and gender-based gaps, and significant increases in graduation …

National Resident Matching Program. We elicit (a) these choice rankings, (b) anticipated subjective well-being (SWB) rankings …

partial year bias is very large: the average level of first-year exports of new exporters is understated by 65 percent and the …

Recent research on United States levels and trends in income inequality vary substantially in how they measure income …. Piketty and Saez (2003) examine market income of tax units based on IRS tax return data, DeNavas-Walt, Proctor, and Smith … (2012) and most CPS-based research uses pre-tax, post-transfer cash income of households, while the CBO (2012) uses both …

While measurement error in the dependent variable does not lead to bias in some well-known cases, with a binary … dependent variable the bias can be pronounced. In binary choice, Hausman, Abrevaya and Scott-Morton (1998) show that the … asymptotic bias in parametric models allowing for correlation of the errors with both observables and unobservables. Second, we …

Africans above a sex-specific age cut-off resulting in a substantial increase in the income of older South Africans and … cannot be an effect of the pension income but reflects selective changes in living arrangements resulting from the pension …