The effect of college curriculum on earnings: An affinity identifier for non-ignorable non-response bias
大学专业与收入:利用关联程度识别非可忽略无应答偏差
We link information on graduates from many cohorts to their high-school and college records and demographics to infer the impact of college major on earnings. We develop an estimator to handle potential non-response bias and identify non-response using an affinity measure--the potential respondent's link to the survey organization. This technique is generally applicable for adjusting for unit non-response. In the earnings model estimated using the identified (for…