WageData: Earnings data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics

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Earnings data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics

Description

These data come from the years 1976-1982 in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), with information about the demographics and earnings of 595 individuals.

Usage

WageData

Format

A data frame with 4165 rows and 14 variables:

id

Unique identifier for each survey respondent

t

A number corresponding to each wave of the survey, 1 through 7

wks

Weeks worked in the past year

lwage

Natural logarithm of earnings in the past year

union

Binary indicator whether respondent is a member of union (1 = union member)

ms

Binary indicator for whether respondent is married (1 = married)

occ

Binary indicator for whether respondent is a blue collar (= 0) or white collar (= 1) worker.

ind

Binary indicator for whether respondent works in manufacturing (= 1)

south

Binary indicator for whether respondent lives in the South (= 1)

smsa

Binary indicator for whether respondent lives in a standard metropolitan area (SMSA; = 1)

fem

Binary indicator for whether respondent is female (= 1)

blk

Binary indicator for whether respondent is African-American (= 1)

ed

Years of education

exp

Years in the workforce.

Source

These data are all over the place. This particular file was downloaded from Richard Williams at https://www3.nd.edu/~rwilliam/statafiles/wages.dta, though he doesn't claim ownership of these data.

The data were shared as a supplement to Baltagi (2005) at https://www.wiley.com/legacy/wileychi/baltagi3e/data_sets.html.

They were also shared as a supplement to Greene (2008) at https://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~wgreene/Text/Edition6/tablelist6.htm.

The data are also available in numerous other locations, including in slightly different formats as Wages in the plm package and PSID7682 in the AER package.

panelr documentation built on Aug. 22, 2023, 5:08 p.m.