Linked samples and measurement error in historical US census data
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Intergenerational mobility; Measurement error; Data linkage;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
- C55 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling - - - Large Data Sets: Modeling and Analysis
- N00 - Economic History - - General - - - General
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