mroz: Mroz Data
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Obs: 753

1	data("mroz")

A data frame with 753 observations on the following 25 variables.

taxableinc: Taxable income for household
federaltax: Federal income taxes
hsiblings: husband's number of siblings
hfathereduc: husband's father's education level
hmothereduc: husband's mothers's education level
siblings: Wife's number of siblings
lfp: dummy variable = 1 if woman worked in 1975, else 0
hours: Wife's hours of work in 1975
kidsl6: Number of children less than 6 years old in household
kids618: Number of children between ages 6 and 18 in household
age: Wife's age
educ: Wife's educational attainment, in years
wage: Wife's 1975 average hourly earnings, in 1975 dollars
wage76: Wife's wage reported at 1976 interview, for 1976
hhours: Husband's hours worked in 1975
hage: Husband's age
heduc: Husband's educational attainment, in years
hwage: Husband's wage, in 1975 dollars
faminc: Family income, in 1975 dollars
mtr: marginal tax rate facing the wife, includes Soc Sec taxes
mothereduc: wife's mother's education level
fathereduc: wife's father's education level
unemployment: Unemployment rate in county of residence
largecity: Dummy variable = 1 if live in large city (SMSA), else 0
exper: Actual years of wife's previous labor market experience

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.

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

These data were kindly provided by Professor Tom Mroz. See the original article for additional detail: Mroz, T. A. (1987) "The sensitivity of an empirical model of a married woman's hours of work to economic and statistical assumptions," Econometrica, 55, 765-800.