Are Estimates of Intergenerational Mobility Biased by Non-Response? Evidence from the Netherlands
Intergenerational mobility is often studied using survey data. In such settings, selective unit or item non-response may bias estimates. Linking Dutch survey data to administrative income data allows us to examine whether selective responses bias the estimated relationship between parental income and children's mathematics and language test scores in grades 6 and 9. We find that the estimates of these relationships are biased downward due to parental unit non-response, while they are biased upwards due to item non-response. In the analyses of both unit and item non-response, the point estimate... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | doc-type:workingPaper |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2018 |
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Bonn: Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
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Schlagwörter: | ddc:330 / I24 / J62 / intergenerational mobility / unit non-response / item non-response |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-29217022 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/180579 |