Improving imputations of top incomes in the public-use current population survey by using both cell-means and variances

Using internal March CPS data, we construct and make available variances and cell-means for all topcoded income values in the public-use CPS. We then demonstrate how their inclusion can improve existing imputation methods in the labor earnings inequality literature.

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Year of publication:	2010
Authors:	Burkhauser, Richard V. ; Feng, Shuaizhang ; Larrimore, Jeff
Published in:	Economics Letters. - Elsevier, ISSN 0165-1765. - Vol. 108.2010, 1, p. 69-72
Publisher:	Elsevier
Subject:	CPS Topcoding Cell-means Variances

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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