Commemorating the 50th anniversary of
the National Longitudinal Surveys
Hani Mansour
Associate Professor
Department of Economics, University of Colorado Denver
NLS user since 2007
Citations
- "Does Employer Learning Vary by Occupation?" Journal of Labor Economics, 2009, Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 415-444.
- "Who Marries Differently Aged Spouses? Education, Occupation, Earnings, Ability, and Appearance." (with Terra McKinnish), The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2014, Vol. 96, No. 3, pp. 577-580.
- "Is Internet Job Search Still Ineffective?" (with Peter Kuhn), Economic Journal, 2014, Vol. 124, No. 581, pp. 1213-1233.
Why I chose NLS data
The NLSY contains unique information not available in many other longitudinal data sets. For example, it contains detailed questions about whether and how workers use the Internet to look for jobs. Another unique variable is the AFQT score which is a key measure of ability and proved to be instrumental in my own research.