mroz: Female labor force participation
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Instructional dataset, N=753, cross-sectional labor force participation data Accompanying Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach, Jeffrey M. Wooldridge, South-Western College Publishing, (c) 2000 and Jeffrey M. Wooldridge, Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data, MIT Press,(c) 2001.

1	data( mroz )

This data frame contains the following variables (columns):

inlf: =1 if in labor force, 1975
hours: hours worked, 1975
kidslt6: # kids < 6 years
kidsge6: # kids 6-18
age: woman's age in yrs
educ: years of schooling
wage: estimated wage from earns., hours
repwage: reported wage at interview in 1976
hushrs: hours worked by husband, 1975
husage: husband's age
huseduc: husband's years of schooling
huswage: husband's hourly wage, 1975
faminc: family income, 1975
mtr: fed. marginal tax rate facing woman
motheduc: mother's years of schooling
fatheduc: father's years of schooling
unem: unem. rate in county of resid.
city: =1 if live in SMSA
exper: actual labor mkt exper
nwifeinc: (faminc - wage*hours)/1000

Datasets accessible from http://wooldridge.swcollege.com, http://courses.bus.msu.edu/econ/821/001/index.cfm?action=mat, and http://www.cengage.com/aise/economics/wooldridge_3e_datasets/

Mroz, T.A. 1987. The Sensitiviy of an Empirical Model of Married Women's Hours of Work to Economic and Statistical Assumptions. Econometrica 55: 765-799

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