mexican: Mexican Data
In ccolonescu/PoEdata: PoE data for R

Description Usage Format Source References Examples

obs: 3016

1	data("mexican")

A data frame with 3016 observations on the following 13 variables.

id: identifier for sex worker; 754 total
trans: transaction number; 4 for each sex worker
lnprice: logarithm of price of transaction
bar: = 1 if transaction originated in a bar; 0 otherwise
street: = 1 if transaction originated in a street; 0 otherwise
othersite: = 1 if transaction originated in another site; 0 otherwise
nocondom: = 1 if a condom was not used; 0 otherwise
attractive: 1 if the sex worker is attractive; 0 otherwise
school: = 1 if sex worker has completed secondary school or higher; 0 otherwise
age: age of sex worker in years
rich: = 1 if client is rich; 0 otherwise
regular: = 1 if client is regular; 0 otherwise
alcohol: alcohol = 1 if client consumed alcohol prior to the transaction

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

These data are a subset of those used by Paul Gertler, Manisha Shah and Stefano Bertozzi in their study “Risky Business: The Market for Unprotected Sex”, Journal of Political Economy(2005), 113, 518-550. We are grateful to the authors for permission to use their data and to Manisha Shah for compiling the subset used in this exercise.