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Measurement error in income and schooling, and the bias of linear estimators

Bingley, Paul and Martinello, Alessandro LU (2017) In Journal Labor Economics p.1117-1148
Abstract
We propose a general framework for determining the extent of measurement error bias in OLS and IV estimators of linear models, while allowing for measurement error in the validation source. We apply this method by validating Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) data with Danish administrative registers.
Contrary to most validation studies, we find measurement error in income is classical, once we account for imperfect validation data. We find non-classical measurement error in schooling, causing a 38 percent amplification bias in IV estimators of the returns, with important implications for the program evaluation literature.
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10.1086/692539
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