Visiting Scholar Richard Burkhauser

Abstract

Using the Census Bureau's internal March Current Population Surveys (CPS) file, we construct and make available variances and cell means for all topcoded income values in the public-use version of these data. We then provide a procedure that allows researchers with access only to the public-use March CPS data to take advantage of this added information when imputing its topcoded income values. As an example of its value we show how our new procedure improves on existing imputation methods in the labor earnings inequality literature.

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Richard Burkhauser is a visiting scholar at AEI. Shuaizhang Feng is an assistant professor of economics at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. Jeff Larrimore is a graduate student in economics at Cornell University.