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Ham, John C. Reagan, Patricia Benton Li, Xianghong |
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Propensity Score Matching, a Distance-Based Measure of Migration, and the Wage Growth of Young Men Working Paper No. 05.13, Institute for Economic Policy Research, December 2004. Also: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=671062 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Institute for Economic Policy Research Keyword(s): College Graduates; High School Dropouts; Migration Patterns; Wage Growth Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Our analysis of migration differs from previous research in three important aspects. First, we exploit the confidential geocoding in the NLSY79 to obtain a distance-based measure. Second, we let the effect of migration on wage growth differ by schooling level. Third, we use propensity score matching to measure the effect of migration on the wages of those who move. We develop an economic model and use it to (i) assess the appropriateness of matching as an econometric method for studying migration and (ii) choose the conditioning variables used in the matching procedure. Our data set provides a rich array of variables on which to match. We find a significant effect of migration on the wage growth of college graduates of 10 percent, and a marginally significant effect for high school dropouts of -12 percent. If we use either a measure of migration based on moving across county lines or state lines, the significant effects of migration for college graduates and dropouts disappear. |
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Ham, John C., Patricia Benton Reagan and Xianghong Li. "Propensity Score Matching, a Distance-Based Measure of Migration, and the Wage Growth of Young Men." Working Paper No. 05.13, Institute for Economic Policy Research, December 2004. |