crime1: crime1

crime1R Documentation

crime1

Description

Wooldridge Source: J. Grogger (1991), “Certainty vs. Severity of Punishment,” Economic Inquiry 29, 297-309. Professor Grogger kindly provided a subset of the data he used in his article. Data loads lazily.

Usage

data('crime1')

Format

A data.frame with 2725 observations on 16 variables:

  • narr86: # times arrested, 1986

  • nfarr86: # felony arrests, 1986

  • nparr86: # property crme arr., 1986

  • pcnv: proportion of prior convictions

  • avgsen: avg sentence length, mos.

  • tottime: time in prison since 18 (mos.)

  • ptime86: mos. in prison during 1986

  • qemp86: # quarters employed, 1986

  • inc86: legal income, 1986, $100s

  • durat: recent unemp duration

  • black: =1 if black

  • hispan: =1 if Hispanic

  • born60: =1 if born in 1960

  • pcnvsq: pcnv^2

  • pt86sq: ptime86^2

  • inc86sq: inc86^2

Used in Text

pages 82-83, 173-174, 180, 252-253, 275, 299, 305-306, 607-608, 625

Source

https://www.cengage.com/cgi-wadsworth/course_products_wp.pl?fid=M20b&product_isbn_issn=9781111531041

Examples

 str(crime1)

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