mroz: Women wage dataset from Mroz (1987)

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Description

The data are from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) longitudinal study, 1976 wave. They give the number of work hours of married women along with socio-economic variables and the number of children.

Format

a data frame containing the following variables:

• whrs: hours of work

• kidslt6: number of children aged 5 and below years old in household

• kidsge6: number of children between age of 6 and 18 in household

• age: age (in years)

• educ: number of years in school

• hearn: hourly earnings

• exp: years of previous labor market experience

Source

W. Greene's website, accessed 17.12.2019 at <http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~wgreene/Text/Edition7/TableF5-1.csv>.

References

T. A. Mroz, 1987. The Sensitivity of an Empirical Model of Married Women's Hours of Work to Economic and Statistical Assumptions, Econometrica, 55(4), pp. 765-799

See Also

Mroz

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