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Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Young Men (NLSYM) that was used by Card (1995).
data(card.data)
A data frame with 3010 observations on the following 35 variables.
id
subject id
nearc2
indicator for whether a subject grew up near a two-year college
nearc4
indicator for whether a subject grew up near a four-year college
educ
subject's years of education
age
subject's age at the time of the survey in 1976
fatheduc
subject's father's years of education
motheduc
subject's mother's years of education
weight
sampling weight
momdad14
indicator for whether subject lived with both mother and father at age 14
sinmom14
indicator for whether subject lived with single mom at age 14
step14
indicator for whehter subject lived with step-parent at age 14
reg661
indicator for whether subject lived in region 1 (New England) in 1966
reg662
indicator for whether subject lived in region 2 (Middle Atlantic) in 1966
reg663
indicator for whether subject lived in region 3 (East North Central) in 1966
reg664
indicator for whether subject lived in region 4 (West North Central) in 1966
reg665
indicator for whether subject lived in region 5 (South Atlantic) in 1966
reg666
indicator for whether subject lived in region 6 (East South Central) in 1966
reg667
indicator for whether subject lived in region 7 (West South Central) in 1966
reg668
indicator for whether subject lived in region 8 (Mountain) in 1966
reg669
indicator for whether subject lived in region 9 (Pacific) in 1966
south66
indicator for whether subject lived in South in 1966
black
indicator for whether subject's race is black
smsa
indicator for whether subject lived in SMSA in 1976
south
indicator for whether subject lived in the South in 1976
smsa66
indicator for whether subject lived in SMSA in 1966
wage
subject's wage in cents per hour in 1976
enroll
indicator for whether subject is enrolled in college in 1976
KWW
subject's score on the Knowledge of the World of Work (KWW) test in 1966
IQ
IQ-type test score collected from the high school of the subject.
married
indicator for whether the subject was married in 1976.
libcrd14
indicator for whether subject had library card at age 14.
exper
subject's years of labor force experience in 1976
lwage
subject's log wage in 1976
expersq
square of subject's years of labor force experience in 1976
region
region in which subject lived in 1976
Card, D. Using Geographic Variation in College Proximity to Estimate the Return to Schooling. In Aspects of Labor Market Behavior: Essays in Honor of John Vanderkamp, eds. L.N. Christophides, E.K. Grant and R. Swidinsky. 201-222. National Longitudinal Survey of Young Men: https://www.nlsinfo.org/investigator/pages/login.jsp
data(card.data)
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