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Title: Survey Attrition and Schooling Choices
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Falaris, Evangelos M. Peters, H. Elizabeth |
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Survey Attrition and Schooling Choices Working Paper, Department of Economics, University of Delaware, February 1994 Cohort(s): NLSY79, Young Men, Young Women Publisher: Department of Economics, University of Delaware Keyword(s): Attrition; Data Quality/Consistency; Dropouts; Educational Attainment; Life Cycle Research; Longitudinal Surveys; Modeling; Nonresponse; Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID); Schooling Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. It is well known that longitudinal surveys lose parts of their samples over time to attrition (or nonresponse). Little is known, however, about the effect of survey attrition on the estimates of statistical models which are obtained using longitudinal data. In this paper we propose a new method of studying the effect of survey attrition on estimates of statistical models. We apply his method to the study of schooling choices. The present paper uses data from an earlier paper (Falaris and Peters 1992) and investigates the effect of survey attrition on regressions of both schooling attainment of individuals and of the age of school completion on exogenous characteristics. This is accomplished by comparing baseline regressions estimated using all observations on individuals who were observed at a certain point in the life cycle wide regressions based on samples which exclude individuals who missed any interviews either before or after that point. In the life cycle and up to the most recent observation period which is available to us now. We use data from tie Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and the National Longitudinal Surveys of Labor Market Experience Young Men, Young Women and Youth. |
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Falaris, Evangelos M. and H. Elizabeth Peters. "Survey Attrition and Schooling Choices." Working Paper, Department of Economics, University of Delaware, February 1994. |