[…] contact is made (‘reluctance to co-operate’). We assess the separate and combined effects of ease of contact and reluctance on nonresponse bias in order to estimate the impact of extended interviewer efforts on survey error and to answer subsidiary questions about the relative effectiveness of different types of extended efforts. Data come from the […]
This paper analyses the economic impact of becoming disabled for British working-age men. The data is from the five eight waves (1991/8) of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). Cross-sectional evidence shows that the income of disabled working-age men is substantially lower than non-disabled working-age men. However, analysis of longitudinal data indicates that the […]
This paper analyses the economic impact of becoming disabled for British working-age men. The data is from the five eight waves (1991/8) of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). Cross-sectional evidence shows that the income of disabled working-age men is substantially lower than non-disabled working-age men. However, analysis of longitudinal data indicates that the […]
[…] a wide range of individual, area and job related characteristics and household circumstances, as well as taking into account unobserved differences, we are able to assess the impact of moving home, the distance moved and reasons for moving on household income and individual earnings. We also examine time dimensions in the returns to moving […]
This paper examines the conversion from PAPI to CAPI of the British Household Panel Survey at Wave 9 (1999). The paper describes the procedures adopted by the BHPS and examines the impact of the introduction of CAPI on key variables within the data.
[…] experiences. This paper demonstrates the value of focusing on transitions between employment and non-employment (as opposed to tracking transitions in and out of unemployment) when examining the impact of the flexible labour market on earnings and poverty. We also examine the consistency of individual employment histories, and propose strategies for dealing with inconsistencies in […]
[…] medical, developmental and temperament measures collected from the same families in cycle 1. This work attempts to establish whether the NLSCY makes it possible to identify the impact of early childhood conditions on later behavior, and particularly whether the children’s previous experiences are a better predictor of their current aggressive behavior compared to their […]