Commemorating the 50th anniversary of
the National Longitudinal Surveys
NLS user since 1985
In my early research focusing on earnings differences between men and women, the longitudinal nature of the data provided by the NLS surveys was invaluable to getting at more rigorous evidence than the typical cross-sectional data sets permitted, and the wealth of unusual information (such as on self-reported discrimination) allowed for analyses that were simply impossible with other data.