womenwork: Womens' labor force participation

womenworkR Documentation

Womens' labor force participation

Description

A dataset on the working status (works or does not work) for 200 women.

Usage

womenwork

Format

A data frame with 200 rows and 9 variables:

work

Whether or not the woman works.

constant

Constant/intercept.

husbandInc

Husband's income.

educYears

Years of education.

expYears

Years of experience.

expYears2

(Years of experience/10)^2.

age

Age.

nSmallChild

Number of children at or under the age of six in the household.

nBigChild

Number of children older than six in the household. Not counting the husband.

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Source

Mroz, T. A. (1987). The sensitivity of an empirical model of married women's hours of work to economic and statistical assumptions. Econometrica 55, 765–799.

This particular data is the subset used in

Jelizakov, I. and Chib, S. (2001). Marginal Likelihood from the Metropolis–Hastings Output. JASA.


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