hwage: Hwage Data

In ccolonescu/PoEdata: PoE data for R

Description

obs: 753 households

Usage

data("hwage")

Format

A data frame with 753 observations on the following 4 variables.

hw

husband’s wage in 2006 dollars

he

husband’s education attainment in years

ha

husband’s age

cit

a variable equal to 1 if living in a large city, otherwise 0

Details

hese variables are a subset of those used by Mroz in his study of female labor force participation. To convert husband's wage to 2006 dollars the original observations on HW have been multiplied by 3.78.

Source

http://principlesofeconometrics.com/poe4/poe4.htm

References

THE MROZ DATA FILE IS TAKEN FROM THE 1976 PANEL STUDY OF INCOME DYNAMICS, AND IS BASED ON DATA FOR THE PREVIOUS YEAR, 1975. OF THE 753 OBSERVATIONS, THE FIRST 428 ARE FOR WOMEN WITH POSITIVE HOURS WORKED IN 1975, WHILE THE REMAINING 325 OBSERVATIONS ARE FOR WOMEN WHO DID NOT WORK FOR PAY IN 1975. A MORE COMPLETE DISCUSSION OF THE DATA IS FOUND IN MROZ [1987], APPENDIX 1.

Examples

data(hwage)
## maybe str(hwage) ; plot(hwage) ...

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