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The Limitations of Family Reconstitution

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How can this be?<br />

• <strong>The</strong> relationship between migration and<br />

marriage age using the conventional measure is<br />

almost identical to the effect predicted by the<br />

microsimulation<br />

• And yet, the conventional measure and the<br />

unbiased measure come out only 0.8 years<br />

different!<br />

• Maybe the tiny population <strong>of</strong> nonmigrants were<br />

different from most people, and married<br />

younger.<br />

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