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An Analysis of the Impact of Sample Attrition on the Second Generation of Respondents in the Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics

The Journal of Human ResourcesPublished 1 January 1998
John Fitzgerald, Peter Gottschalk, Robert Moffitt
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Abstract

Only a few studies have tried to estimate the trend in the elasticity of children's economic status with respect to parents' economic status, and these studies produce conflicting results. In an attempt to reconcile these findings, we use the Panel Study ...

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Social Sciences