TY  - JOUR
AU  - Burkhauser,Richard V.
AU  - Feng,Shuaizhang
AU  - Larrimore,Jeff
TI  - Measuring Labor Earnings Inequality using Public-Use March Current Population Survey Data: The Value of Including Variances and Cell Means When Imputing Topcoded Values
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 14458
PY  - 2008
Y2  - October 2008
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w14458
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w14458.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Richard V. Burkhauser
Cornell University
Department of Policy Analysis & Management
259 MVR Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-4401
Tel: 607/255-2097
Fax: 607/255-4071
E-Mail: rvb1@cornell.edu

Shuaizhang Feng
Department of Economics
Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Shanghai China
E-Mail: shuaizhang.feng@gmail.com

Jeff Larrimore
Joint Committee on Taxation
1625 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
E-Mail: jeff.larrimore@mail.house.gov
AB  - 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.
ER  -