pension: pension

pensionR Documentation

pension

Description

Wooldridge Source: L.E. Papke (2004), “Individual Financial Decisions in Retirement Saving: The Role of Participant-Direction,” Journal of Public Economics 88, 39-61. Professor Papke kindly provided the data. She collected them from the National Longitudinal Survey of Mature Women, 1991. Data loads lazily.

Usage

data('pension')

Format

A data.frame with 194 observations on 19 variables:

  • id: family identifier

  • pyears: years in pension plan

  • prftshr: =1 if profit sharing plan

  • choice: =1 if can choose method invest

  • female: =1 if female

  • married: =1 if married

  • age: age in years

  • educ: highest grade completed

  • finc25: $15,000 < faminc92 <= $25,000

  • finc35: $25,000 < faminc92 <= $35,000

  • finc50: $35,000 < faminc92 <= $50,000

  • finc75: $50,000 < faminc92 <= $75,000

  • finc100: $75,000 < faminc92 <= $100,000

  • finc101: $100,000 < faminc92

  • wealth89: net worth, 1989, $1000

  • black: =1 if black

  • stckin89: =1 if owned stock in 1989

  • irain89: =1 if had IRA in 1989

  • pctstck: 0=mstbnds,50=mixed,100=mststcks

Used in Text

page 506

Source

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

Examples

 str(pension)

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