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Heterogeneous income profiles and life-cycle bias in intergenerational mobility estimation
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- Nybom, Martin, 1981- (author)
- Stockholms universitet,Institutet för social forskning (SOFI),Institute for Evaluation of Labor Market and Education Policy, Sweden
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- Stuhler, Jan (author)
- Stockholms universitet,Institutet för social forskning (SOFI),Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
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- 2016-01-29
- 2016
- English.
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In: The Journal of human resources. - : University of Wisconsin Press. - 0022-166X .- 1548-8004. ; 51:1, s. 239-268
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- Using short snapshots of income in intergenerational mobility estimation causes “lifecycle bias” if the snapshots cannot mimic lifetime outcomes. We use uniquely long series of Swedish income data to show that this bias is large and to examine current strategies to reduce it. We confirm that lifecycle bias is smallest when incomes are measured around midlife, a central implication from a widely adopted generalization of the classical errors-in-variables model. However, the model cannot predict the ideal age of measurement or eliminate lifecycle bias at other ages. We illustrate how extensions of this model can reduce the bias further.
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- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Nationalekonomi (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Economics and Business -- Economics (hsv//eng)
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