Workmroz: Labor Force Participation

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Labor Force Participation

Description

Data extracted by Mroz(1987) from the 1976 Panel Study of Income Dynacmis. The sample consists of 753 white, married women between the ages of 30 and 60.

Usage

data(Workmroz)

Format

A data frame with 753 observations on the following 9 variables:

lfp

1 if wife is in the paid labor force; else 0,

k5

Number of children ages 5 and younger,

k618

Number of children ages 6 to 18,

age

Wife's age in years,

wc

1 if wife attended college; else 0,

hc

1 if husband attended college; else 0,

lwg

Log of wife's estimated wage rate,

inc

Family income excluding wife's wage,

linc

Log of Family income excluding wife's wage,

Source

Mroz, T. A. (1987). The sensitivity of an empirical model of married women's hours of work to economic and statistical assumptions. Econometrica, 55(4), 765-799

Examples

data(Workmroz)

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