Estimating intergenerational schooling mobility on censored samples: consequences and remedies
研究子女仍在学导致的删失数据对代际教育流动性估计的影响，并评估三种补救方法：用预期受教育年限替代、最大似然法、剔除学龄儿童。基于威斯康星纵向研究数据，发现用父母预期替代的方法效果最好。
In this paper we estimate the impact of parental schooling on child schooling, focus on the problem that children who are still in school constitute censored observations, and evaluate three solutions to it: replacement of observed with expected years of schooling, maximum likelihood approach, and elimination of all school-aged children. Using intergenerational data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study we test how the three correction methods deal with censored observations. The one that treats parental expectations as if they were realizations seems to fix the censoring problem quite well. Copyright (C) 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.