catholic: catholic

catholicR Documentation

catholic

Description

Wooldridge Source: Altonji, J.G., T.E. Elder, and C.R. Taber (2005), “An Evaluation of Instrumental Variable Strategies for Estimating the Effects of Catholic Schooling,” Journal of Human Resources 40, 791-821. Professor Elder kindly provided a subset of the data, with some variables stripped away for confidentiality reasons. Data loads lazily.

Usage

data('catholic')

Format

A data.frame with 7430 observations on 13 variables:

  • id: person identifier

  • read12: reading standardized score

  • math12: mathematics standardized score

  • female: =1 if female

  • asian: =1 if Asian

  • hispan: =1 if Hispanic

  • black: =1 if black

  • motheduc: mother's years of education

  • fatheduc: father's years of education

  • lfaminc: log of family income

  • hsgrad: =1 if graduated from high school by 1994

  • cathhs: =1 if attended Catholic HS

  • parcath: =1 if a parent reports being Catholic

Used in Text

pages 267, 551

Source

http://www.cengage.com/c/introductory-econometrics-a-modern-approach-6e-wooldridge

Examples

 str(catholic)

wooldridge documentation built on May 3, 2023, 5:06 p.m.