Enhancing the quality of data on income: Recent innovations from the HRS

Journal of Human Resources

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 758-772

  Hurd, Michael ^a   Juster, F Thomas ^b   Smith, James P ^a  

^a RAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INCOME; MEASUREMENT METHOD; QUALITY CONTROL;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0141596298     PISSN: 0022166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1558775     Document Type: Article

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