alcohol: alcohol

alcoholR Documentation

alcohol

Description

Wooldridge Source: Terza, J.V. (2002), “Alcohol Abuse and Employment: A Second Look,” Journal of Applied Econometrics 17, 393-404. I obtained these data from the Journal of Applied Econometrics data archive at http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/jae/. Data loads lazily.

Usage

data('alcohol')

Format

A data.frame with 9822 observations on 33 variables:

  • abuse: =1 if abuse alcohol

  • status: out of workforce = 1; unemployed = 2, employed = 3

  • unemrate: state unemployment rate

  • age: age in years

  • educ: years of schooling

  • married: =1 if married

  • famsize: family size

  • white: =1 if white

  • exhealth: =1 if in excellent health

  • vghealth: =1 if in very good health

  • goodhealth: =1 if in good health

  • fairhealth: =1 if in fair health

  • northeast: =1 if live in northeast

  • midwest: =1 if live in midwest

  • south: =1 if live in south

  • centcity: =1 if live in central city of MSA

  • outercity: =1 if in outer city of MSA

  • qrt1: =1 if interviewed in first quarter

  • qrt2: =1 if interviewed in second quarter

  • qrt3: =1 if interviewed in third quarter

  • beertax: state excise tax, $ per gallon

  • cigtax: state cigarette tax, cents per pack

  • ethanol: state per-capita ethanol consumption

  • mothalc: =1 if mother an alcoholic

  • fathalc: =1 if father an alcoholic

  • livealc: =1 if lived with alcoholic

  • inwf: =1 if status > 1

  • employ: =1 if employed

  • agesq: age^2

  • beertaxsq: beertax^2

  • cigtaxsq: cigtax^2

  • ethanolsq: ethanol^2

  • educsq: educ^2

Used in Text

page 629

Source

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

Examples

 str(alcohol)

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