Biases from truncation caused by coresidency restriction have been a challenge for research on intergenerational mobility. Estimates of intergenerational schooling persistence from two data sets show that the intergenerational regression coefficient, the most widely used measure, is severely biased downward in coresident samples. But the bias in intergenerational correlation is much smaller, and is less sensitive to the coresidency rate. The paper...
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2016/03/18
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Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas
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WPS7608
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2016/03/18
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When measure matters: coresidency, truncation bias, and intergenerational mobility in developing countries
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household survey data collection