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Dealing with Attrition When Refreshment Samples are Available: An Application to the Turkish Household Labor Force Survey

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estimated in the context of a three-state labor market application. Futher, strict bounds on the estimated probabilities are calculated using Manski’s bounds approach. Empirical findings confirm that attrition is non-ignorable, and neither MAR nor HW adequately model it.

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  • Emre Ekinci, 2009. "Dealing with Attrition When Refreshment Samples are Available: An Application to the Turkish Household Labor Force Survey," 2009 Meeting Papers 353, Society for Economic Dynamics.
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