The “Window Problem” in Studies of Children's Attainments: A Methodological Exploration
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儿童成长结果研究中的“观察窗口问题”
- 研究问题
- 用童年某一年或短期经历代理整个童年环境，会如何影响儿童教育和生育结果研究中的估计可靠性与解释？
- 方法与思路
- 作者建立遗漏变量模型，并利用 PSID 的长期儿童资料，在约化式模型中以四类检验比较短窗口和完整童年信息。
- 材料陈述的贡献
- 摘要称，单年及短期窗口通常是完整童年经历的弱代理，可能产生误导性效应判断，并据此讨论数据收集安排。
- 阅读关注点
- 核对窗口变量与长期经历的对应关系、四类可靠性检验的构造，以及样本选择和约化式结果能支持何种解释。
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原文摘要
Numerous statistical studies of the determinants of children's attainments measure the circumstances or events occurring over the childhood period by observations of these variables for a single year or a short duration during childhood. These variables are accepted as proxies for information over the entire childhood period. We explore the reliability of estimated results from studies that use such “window” variables. Because window variables describing intermittent events and discontinuous periods of more persistent characteristics may fail to correspond to variables describing the entire childhood experience, the basic question concerns the extent to which such limited duration information is consistent with that measured over the entire childhood period. We first present an omitted variables model that describes the nature of the “window” problem, and which allows us to measure the consistency of window variables to their longer-duration counterparts. We then use the distinctions revealed by this model to empirically study the potential problems associated with the use of window variables. We use 21 years of data on a sample of 1,705 children from the Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics in reduced form models of the determinants of children's schooling and fertility outcomes. We develop four tests of the reliability of estimates using varying window lengths relative to full information on the childhood experience. These include omitted variable likelihood ratio tests, tests of goodness of fit, a sign and significance comparison, and a comparison of the magnitude of the simulated changes using window variables versus those of longer duration. We conclude that single-year and limited duration window variables serve as weak proxies for information describing the entire childhood experience, and often lead to inferences of effects that may be misleading; we draw the implications of this finding for future data collection and research.