mroz: U.S. Women's Labor-Force Participation, 1975

Description Usage Format Source

Description

This is a common dataset used in statistical evaluation in numerous cases. It is especially common in Stata examples.

Usage

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Format

a data frame with 753 rows and 23 columns.

id Row number / record id.
inlf 1 if in labor force.
hours Hours worked.
kidslt6 Number of kids less than 6 years old.
kidsge6 Number of kids greater than or equal to 6 years old.
age Age in years.
educ Years of schooling.
wage Estimated wage from earnings and hours.
repwage Reported wage in 1976 interview.
hushrs Hours worked by husband.
husage Age of husband in years.
huseduc Husband's years of schooling.
huswage Husband's wage estimated from earnings and hours.
faminc Family income in dollars.
mtr Federal marginal tax rate facing the woman.
motheduc Woman's mother's years of schooling.
fatheduc Woman's father's years of schooling.
unem Unemployment rate in county of residence.
city 1 if living in the SMSA.
exper Labor market experience in years.
nwifeinc Calculated as

(faminc - wage * hours) / 1000

lwage log wage.
expersq Years of experience squared.

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.


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