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Working Paper

Participation, Compliance, and Antipoverty Effectiveness

September 1993

This paper examines the participation rate of the earned income tax credit (EITC).

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Working Paper

A Comparative Analysis of Data on Persons with a Work Disability

August 11, 1993

In terms of gender, work disability rates for men were higher than those for women.

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Working Paper

Modeling Food Stamp Participation in the Presence of Reporting Errors

August 1993

Validation study of reported program participation by Marquis and Moore (1990) reveals a bias due to net under-reporting of Food Stamp Program.

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Working Paper

The Effectiveness of Oversampling Low Income Households in the SIPP

August 1993

This paper describes the oversample design for the 1990 SIPP panel which the Census Bureau introduced in February through May 1990.

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Working Paper

The Seasonality of Moving: An Analysis of Data from the SIPP

August 1993

The Census Bureau has been collecting and tabulating data on residential mobility for almost 150 years.

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Working Paper

The Seam Effect in SIPP's Labor Force Data

August 1993

The "seam" derives its name from the abutment of consecutive survey reference periods, about which survey enumerators collect various kinds of information.

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Working Paper

Exits from Poverty A Proportional Hazards Model from the SIPP

August 1993

This paper examines persons who experience spells of poverty over a two year period using the 1987 panel of Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP).

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Working Paper

Cross-Sectional Imputation and Longitudinal Editing Procedures

July 1993

Longitudinal surveys like the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) require a number of interviews over a period of years.

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Working Paper

Informal Mechanisms for Government Decision-Making

June 15, 1993

This paper reports on a case study in one government agency where gridlock was avoided by the formation of a specialized team.

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Working Paper

Variance Estimation by Users of SIPP Micro-Data Files

June 1993

Public use data files of the SIPP are expected to be used by many different researchers, particularly in the areas of Sociology, Economics and public policy.

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Working Paper

A Comparative Analysis of the Labor Force Activities

June 1993

An analysis of the labor force activities of men and women from the black, American Indian, Asian, Mexican, other Hispanic and non-Hispanic white populations.

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Working Paper

Who's Wealthy? Who's Not?

1993

This paper reports micro-level regression analyses sociodemographic covariates of household net worth data in eight waves of five distinct panels of the SIPP.

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Working Paper

Mover Nonresponse Adjustment Research for the SIPP

1993

This paper focuses on new compensation approaches to our longitudinal weighting procedures designed to reduce nonresponse bias.

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Working Paper

Effects of a Cognitive Interviewing Approach on Response Quality

1993

The Survey of Income and Program Participation is a major vehicle for producing information about the economic situation of people and families in the US.

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Working Paper

Use of Administrative Data in SIPP Longitudinal Estimation

1993

The SIPP currently uses cross-classifications of age, race, sex, and householder/nonhouseholder status as controls in longitudinal estimation.

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Working Paper

Are College-Education Young Persons Finding Good Jobs?

1993

This paper attempts to look at the kinds of jobs young persons, who are college educated, have moved into in recent years.

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Working Paper

A Comparison of Attrition in the PSID and the SIPP

1993

This paper analyzes attrition behavior in two major longitudinal surveys; the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the Survey of Income and Program Participation.

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Working Paper

Where's Papa? Fathers' Role in Child Care

1993

This report will examine the role that the father played as a child care provider during the recent economic recession.

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Working Paper

An Analysis of Attrition in the PSID and SIPP

1993

This paper analyzes attrition behavior in two major longitudinal surveys; the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the Survey of Income and Program Participation.

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