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An analysis of sample attrition in panel data: the Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics.

By 1989 the Michigan Panel Study on Income Dynamics (PSID) had experienced approximately 50 percent sample loss from cumulative attrition from its initial 1968 membership. We study the effect of this attrition on the unconditional distributions of several socioeconomic variables and on the estimate...

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Published in:Journal of Human Resources Vol. 33; no. 2; pp. 251 - 300
Main Authors: Fitzgerald, John, Gottschalk, Peter, Moffitt, Robert
Format: Article
Published: University of Wisconsin Press Spring98
Subjects:
Panel analysis
Test validity
Social surveys
Longitudinal method
Household surveys
Response rates
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