The Panel Study of Income Dynamics after Fourteen Years: An Evaluation

Becketti, Sean; Gould, William; Lillard, Lee A.; Welch, Finis

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“…Some of the issues raised here are not new, and have already been discussed with reference to the PSID (see e.g. Becketti et al 1988, Duncan & Hill 1989, Lillard 1989, and Fitzgerald, Gottschalk & Mo½tt 1997. Table 5 shows household response rates in the ®rst three waves of the ECHP.…”

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The European Community Household Panel: A review

Peracchi

2002

Empirical Economics

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Abstract. The European Community Household Panel (ECHP) is a standardized multi-purpose annual longitudinal survey carried out at the level of the European Union. It is centrally designed and coordinated by the Statistical O½ce of the European Communities (Eurostat), and covers demographics, labor force behavior, income, health, education and training, housing, migration, etc.After reviewing the organization of the survey, this paper discusses some of the issues that an applied economist potentially interested in the ECHP may face when trying to deal with these data. In particular, the paper focuses on survey attrition and nonresponse, the weighting procedures with which Eurostat tries to compensate for di¨erential nonresponse and attrition rates, and the imputation methods adopted by Eurostat in order to deal with item nonresponse.

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“…Attrition cannot therefore be ignored, for it may lead to invalid inference, even when attrition rates are modest (see e.g. Becketti et al 1988 andPeracchi &Welch 1995). Figure 2 presents individual attrition rates by sex and age for the nine largest countries (Austria, Denmark, Ireland, and Luxembourg are excluded).…”

Section: Attritionmentioning

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The European Community Household Panel: A review

Peracchi

2002

Empirical Economics

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“…5 Sample 5 A document describing the selection of the low-income oversample of the PSID (often referred to as the Survey of Economic Opportunity, or SEO, sample) raises questions about the procedures that were used to generate the sample (Brown 1996). Although the uncertainties about the original sample selection process are somewhat troubling, attempts to examine whether these procedures have produced problems with the SEO sample have generated no substantive evidence that the PSID sample is unrepresentative of the low-income population when compared with the Current Population Survey (Becketti et al 1988;Brown 1996;Fitzgerald, Gottschalk, andMoffitt 1998a, 1998b). To ensure that my estimates of intergenerational elasticity are not being driven by the SEO sample, I estimate the main models with and without the SEO sample, and I find only small differences.…”

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The Intergenerational Transmission of Context

Sharkey

2008

American Journal of Sociology

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This article draws on the extensive literature on economic and social mobility in America to examine intergenerational contextual mobility, defined as the degree to which inequalities in neighborhood environments persist across generations. PSID data are analyzed to reveal remarkable continuity in neighborhood economic status from one generation to the next. The primary consequence of persistent neighborhood stratification is that the racial inequality in America's neighborhoods that existed a generation ago has been transmitted, for the most part unchanged, to the current generation. More than 70% of black children who grow up in the poorest quarter of American neighborhoods remain in the poorest quarter of neighborhoods as adults, compared to 40% of whites. The results suggest that racial inequality in neighborhood economic status is substantially underestimated with short-term measures of neighborhood income or poverty and, second, that the steps taken to end racial discrimination in the housing and lending markets have not enabled black Americans to advance out of America's poorest neighborhoods.A long and rich tradition of research in the social sciences is devoted to describing and explaining patterns of social and economic mobility in 1 I thank Robert Sampson, William Julius Wilson, and Chris Winship for their critical input on this project. I am also grateful for feedback from audiences at several universities at which I presented the paper. I received particularly detailed and valuable comments from Xavier de

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“…Most of the existing literature has focused on non-ageing panels in the United States, especially during earlier time periods when attrition rates typically were considerably lower (Becketti et al, 1988;Fitzgerald et al, 1998;Lillard and Panis, 1998; Zapel, 1998).…”

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Attrition and Health in Ageing Studies: Evidence from ELSA and HRS

2010

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These new ageing studies, which share a comparable template, provide rich sources of information for researchers interested in the dynamics of health, socioeconomic status, retirement, and wellbeing among ageing populations. Their panel nature allows us to investigate the nature and determinants of within-person and within-household experiences in retirement and health onsets, and the manner in which these central life domains co-relate. There are now more than 25 countries in the world who have initiated such comparable longitudinal ageing studies and more countries are certainly on the way.An important concern with all panel studies, and particularly those focused on an older population, is the potential for bias caused by individuals non-randomly dropping out of the survey over time. If attrition from a survey is systematically related to outcomes of interest or to variables correlated with these outcomes, then not only will the survey cease to be representative of the population of interest, but estimates of the relationships between different key outcomes, especially in a longitudinal context, may also be biased.The issue of non-response in longitudinal surveys-both initial non-response and subsequent attrition-has a distinguished history in survey research and statistics (Sudman and Bradburn, 1974, Groves and Couper, 1998, Little and Rubin, 1987. Most of the existing literature has focused on non-ageing panels in the United States, especially during earlier time periods when attrition rates typically were considerably lower (Becketti et al., 1988;Fitzgerald et al., 1998;Lillard and Panis, 1998; Zapel, 1998).In this paper we present results of an investigation into observable characteristics associated with attrition in ELSA and the HRS, with a particular focus on whether attrition is systematically related to health outcomes and socioeconomic status (SES) links between health and SES is one of the primary goals of the ELSA and HRS, so attrition correlated with these outcomes is a critical concern.We begin by looking at raw rates of attrition in the two surveys, and show that panel attrition is a far greater problem in ELSA than in HRS. We consider several possible explanations for ELSA's poorer retention rates, including the greater 'maturity' of HRS (which has been running for ten years longer than ELSA), differences in sampling rules and procedures used in the two surveys, the 'quality' of the two respective survey organizations, and differences in incentives offered to respondents. We conclude that none of these explanations alone or together seems sufficient to account for the disparity in attrition rates between the two surveys.Having documented raw attrition rates in ELSA and HRS, we then consider the possible bias such attrition could introduce into estimates of disease prevalence derived from the two surveys. In recent papers, we have used data from these surveys to demonstrate that middleaged and older Americans are substantially less healthy than their English counterparts, across a range of impo...

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The Panel Study of Income Dynamics after Fourteen Years: An Evaluation

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Attrition and Health in Ageing Studies: Evidence from ELSA and HRS

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