| Title |
The implications of selective attrition for estimates of intergenerational elasticity of family income
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|---|---|
| Published in |
The Journal of Economic Inequality, April 2015
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| DOI | 10.1007/s10888-015-9297-z |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Robert F. Schoeni, Emily E. Wiemers |
| Abstract |
Numerous studies have estimated a high intergenerational correlation in economic status. Such studies do not typically attend to potential biases that may arise due to survey attrition. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics - the data source most commonly used in prior studies - we demonstrate that attrition is particularly high for low-income adult children with low-income parents and particularly low for high-income adult children with high-income parents. Because of this pattern of attrition, intergenerational upward mobility has been overstated for low-income families and downward mobility has been understated for high-income families. The bias among low-income families is greater than the bias among high-income families implying that intergenerational elasticity in family income is higher than previous estimates with the Panel Study of Income Dynamics would suggest. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 1 | 7% |
| Unknown | 13 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 3 | 21% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 2 | 14% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 2 | 14% |
| Researcher | 2 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 2 | 14% |
| Other | 1 | 7% |
| Unknown | 2 | 14% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 6 | 43% |
| Social Sciences | 4 | 29% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 1 | 7% |
| Unknown | 3 | 21% |
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