Journal of Human Resources articles from March 1998

Journal of Human Resources archives from March 1998

An analysis of sample attrition in panel data: the Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics.(Attrition in Longitudinal Surveys)
March 22, 1998... I. Introduction The increased availability of panel data from household surveys has been one of the most important developments in applied social science research in the last thirty years. Panel data have permitted social scientists to examine...

An analysis of the impact of sample attrition on the second generation of respondents in the Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics.(Attrition in Longitudinal Surveys)
March 22, 1998... I. Introduction The Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) is unique among large-scale, representative socioeconomic panel data sets in the United States in following the descendants of original sample members. Beginning in 1968 with a...

An evaluation of the National Longitudinal Survey on Youth.(Attrition in Longitudinal Surveys)
March 22, 1998... I. Introduction The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) has become one of the most widely used data sources for investigating many of the economic and demographic circumstances faced by young adults during the 1980s. The usefulness of...

Panel attrition from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics: household income, marital status, and mortality.(Attrition in Longitudinal Surveys)
March 22, 1998... I. Introduction Attrition is a potentially serious problem for models designed to exploit the longitudinal or panel feature of data sets like the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). Attrition may lead to nonrandom censoring of dynamic...

Attrition in panel survey data and the estimation of multi-state labor market models.(Attrition in Longitudinal Surveys)
March 22, 1998... I. Introduction Models for individual unemployment and employment durations are usually estimated with longitudinal data from panel surveys in which individuals are interviewed a number of times in a certain period. In such empirical analyses...

An analysis of attrition in the panel study of income dynamics and the survey of income and program participation with an application to a model of labor market behavior.(Attrition in Longitudinal Surveys)
March 22, 1998... I. Introduction The increased availability of longitudinal surveys is a major advance in facilitating the empirical analysis of individual behavior over time. One aspect of panel data that has received relatively little attention is the exit...

The importance of sample attrition in life cycle labor supply estimation.(Attrition in Longitudinal Surveys)
March 22, 1998... I. Introduction Discontinued participation in a panel survey, known as attrition, can happen for several reasons. Some people move and cannot be traced, others become institutionalized or die, and others are rotated out by a sampling design....

Survey attrition and schooling choices.(Attrition in Longitudinal Surveys)
March 22, 1998... I. Introduction It is well known that longitudinal surveys lose parts of their samples over time to attrition. Less is known, however, about the effect of survey attrition on the estimates of statistical models that are obtained using...

Effects of monotone and nonmonotone attrition on parameter estimates in regression models with educational data: demographic effects on achievement, aspirations, and attitudes.(Attrition in Longitudinal Surveys)
March 22, 1998... I. Introduction A major value of the nationally representative longitudinal databases collected by the National Center for Education Statistics is their external validity, or researchers' ability to generalize to the population of U.S....