Microdata Panel Data and Public Policy: National and Cross-National Perspectives

Syracuse University Center for Policy Research Working Paper No. 23

45 Pages Posted: 13 Apr 2011

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Richard V. Burkhauser

Cornell University - Department of Policy Analysis & Management (PAM); University of Melbourne, Melbourne Institute

Timothy M. (Tim) Smeeding

Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Date Written: May 1, 2000

Abstract

This paper focuses on the movement of data-based social policy analysis from a single country cross-sectional frame to a multi-country panel frame. It provides examples of policy insights this movement to panel data has permitted, both with respect to economic well-being and behavior-using data from the PSID (Panel Study of Income Dynamics), the BHPS (British Household Panel Study), the GSOEP (German Socio-Economic Panel), and the HRS (Health and Retirement Study). It also suggests fruitful areas for future panel data-based policy research.

JEL Classification: C33, O57

Suggested Citation

Burkhauser, Richard V. and Smeeding, Timothy M. (Tim), Microdata Panel Data and Public Policy: National and Cross-National Perspectives (May 1, 2000). Syracuse University Center for Policy Research Working Paper No. 23, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1808063 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1808063

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