schooling and market ability is found to be positive and is consistent with the existence of a positive "Ability Bias". …

Using administrative data, we study the role of attribution bias in a high-stakes, consequential decision: the choice … of results is consistent with attribution bias and difficult to reconcile with competing explanations. …

quantiles of the wage distribution. We account for the selection bias from the annual hours of work decision by developing and …

survey. Even if nonresponse is random, severe bias attaches to wage equation coefficient estimates on attributes not matched … other household members. -- response bias ; imputation ; earnings nonresponse ; gender gap ; CPS …

This paper provides an expression for the bias of the OLS estimator of the schooling coefficient in a simple static … coefficient is biased upward, and the bias is increasing with potential labor-market experience and the degree of earnings … persistence. In addition, NLSY data are used to show that the magnitude of the persistence bias is non-negligible, and the bias …

This paper documents that rotation group bias - the tendency for labor force statistics to vary systematically by month … groups; both should be nationally representative samples. The rise in rotation group bias is driven by a growing tendency for … bias. We find that rotation group bias increased discretely after the 1994 CPS redesign and that rising nonresponse is …