panel designers unaware of the breadth of their options and forcing them to makead hoc decisions. In particular, to what … ever expanding panel because even wide following rules do not typically exceed attrition. …

strategies for German wealth panel data. The authors create simulation data sets by blanking out observed data points: they … performance of multiple imputation using chained equations (MICE), an imputation procedure for panel data known as the row …

types of simultaneous entries into the panel. The little known phenomenon of natural refreshments, which adds to entries … differences in participation experience (i.e. panel conditioning). A demonstrative application on subjective data from the German … Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) serves as an example and offers insights on health-related attrition. …

demography is used to show that an initial bias can "fade-away" in later panel waves, if the transition laws in the observed … sample and the population are identical. Panel attrition is incorporated into the Markovian framework. Extensions to Markov … empirical data from a German Labour Market Panel to demonstrate the extend and speed of the fade-away effect. The implications …