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Title: Constructing Comparable Cohorts Using the NLSY79-CHYA: A Propensity Score Weighting Approach
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Tunalilar, Ozcan White, Robert G. |
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Constructing Comparable Cohorts Using the NLSY79-CHYA: A Propensity Score Weighting Approach Presented: Washington DC, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, March-April 2016 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Mobility, Social; Propensity Scores; Sampling Weights/Weighting Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Children in the NLSY79-CHYA are not representative of their cohorts in the population due to design effects, rendering the dataset impractical to study the period-driven mechanisms of educational and economic mobility in the United States. This is unfortunate considering the richness of the dataset in terms of family history and measures of socioemotional development alongside other benefits. In the current study, we adopt a propensity score weighting procedure to construct and analyze multiple, comparable birth cohorts to study the changing importance of socioemotional skills in educational mobility in the United States. This approach allows accounting for changes in the distributions of family background between cohorts and constructing cohorts suitable for period-driven comparisons. The results are promising for potentially expanding the use of the NLSY79-CHYA in empirical research related to social mobility and inequality. |
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Tunalilar, Ozcan and Robert G. White. "Constructing Comparable Cohorts Using the NLSY79-CHYA: A Propensity Score Weighting Approach." Presented: Washington DC, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, March-April 2016. |