Investigating non-ignorable dropout in panel studies of residential mobility

Publication type

Journal Article

Authors

Publication date

February 15, 2014

Summary:

We consider the effect of non-ignorable dropout in the analysis of residential mobility in household panel surveys. To investigate the effect of such dropout, we consider two types of selection model: the first allows dropout to depend directly on the individual's potentially missing moving status, and the second is a Heckman-type selection model with correlated errors. We discuss the identification and estimation of these models and use simulations to study the role of exclusion restrictions in minimizing the dependence of inferences on unverifiable parametric assumptions. The models are both applied to data from the British Household Panel Survey.

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Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C (Applied Statistics)

Volume and page numbers

Volume: 63 , p.239 -266

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/rssc.12028

ISSN

359254

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