PSIDlong: Dataset about income dynamics

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Dataset about income dynamics

Description

Longitudinal dataset deriving from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) from 1987 to 1993.

Usage

data(PSIDlong)

Format

A data frame with 1446 observations on the following variables.

id

subject id.

time

occasion of observation.

Y1Fertility

indicating whether a woman had given birth to a child in a certain year 1 for "yes", 0 for "no".

Y2Employment

indicating whether she was employed 1 for "yes", 0 for "no".

X1Race

dummy variable equal to 1 for a "black" woman, 0 for "other".

X2Age

age in 1986, rescaled by its maximum value.

X3Age2

squared age.

X4Education

number of years of schooling.

X5Child1_2

number of children in the family aged between 1 and 2 years, referred to the previous year.

X6Child3_5

number of children in the family aged between 3 and 5 years, referred to the previous year.

X7Child6_13

number of children in the family aged between 6 and 13 years, referred to the previous year.

X8Child14

number of children in the family aged over 14 years, referred to the previous year.

X9Income

income of the husband (in dollars, referred to the previous year, divided by 1,000.

Source

https://psidonline.isr.umich.edu

References

This dataset is downloadable through the package 'psidR'.

Examples

data(PSIDlong)

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