Quantiles are frequently used as descriptive measures. When data contains measurement errors, using the contaminated data to estimate the quantiles results in biased estimates. In this paper, we suggest two methods for reducing the effect of measurement errors on the quantile estimates and...

A wildly discussed shortcoming of panel surveys is a potential bias arising from selective attrition. Based on data of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), the authors analyze potential artifacts (level, structure, income inequality) by comparing results for two independently drawn...