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Does Catholic schooling causally effect outcomes, e.g. wages, later in the life? This data is extracted from a longitudinal study of high school graduates in 1957 in Wisconsin.

1	data("wls")

A data frame with 4469 observations on the following 24 variables.

idpub: Public id from wls.
gwiiq_bm: Student's IQ
edfa57q: Father's education
edmo57q: Mother's education
bmpin1: Parent's income
ocsf57: occupation score
ocpf57: occupational prestige score
incg400: Parent's income in the top 1%
incg250: Parent's income in the top 5%
relfml: Catholic religion. TRUE = Catholic; FALSE = Non-Catholic
res57: A numeric code of area of residence of the graduate.
hsdm57: TRUE = Catholic schooling; FALSE = Public schooling.
edfa57q.miss: logical vector indicating whether edfa57q is missing.
edmo57q.miss: logical vectors indicating whether edmo57q is missing.
bmpin1.miss: logical vectors indicating whether bmpin1 is missing.
ocsf57.miss: logical vectors indicating whether ocsf57 is missing.
ocpf57.miss: logical vectors indicating whether ocpf57 is missing.
res57Dic: Urban or Rural. TRUE = Urban; FALSE = Rural.
edfa57q.NoNA: Father's education with NAs replaced by the average.
edmo57q.NoNA: Mother's education with NAs replaced by the average.
bmpin1.NoNA: Parent's income with NAs replaced by the average.
ocsf57.NoNA: Occupation score with NAs replaced by the average.
ocpf57.NoNA: Occupational prestige score with NAs replaced by the average.
yrwg74: 1974 Graduate's wages and salaries in \$100's last year.

This data set is constructed out of publicly available variables of Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. Only male graduates are considered. For more detailed description of the variables see https:// www.ssc.wisc.edu/ wlsresearch/ documentation/.

Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, https://www.ssc.wisc.edu/wlsresearch/

Herd, Pamela, Deborah Carr, and Carol Roan. 2014. "Cohort Profile: Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS)." International Journal of Epidemiology 43:34–41 PMCID: PMC3937969