RetSchool: Return to Schooling

Description Usage Format Source References See Also

Description

a panel of 48 observations from 1970 to 1986

number of observations : 5225

observation : individuals

country : United States

Usage

1

Format

A time serie containing :

wage76

wage in 1876

grade76

grade level in 1976

exp76

experience 1n 1976

black

black ?

south76

lived in south in 1976 ?

smsa76

lived in smsa in 1976 ?

region

region, a factor with levels (un,midatl,enc,wnc,sa,esc,wsc,m,p)

smsa66

lived in smsa in 1966 ?

momdad14

lived with both parents at age 14 ?

sinmom14

lived with mother only at age 14 ?

nodaded

father has no formal education ?

nomomed

mother has no formal education ?

daded

mean grade level of father

momed

mean grade level of mother

famed

father's and mother's education, a factor with 9 levels

age76

age in 1976

col4

is any 4-year college nearby ?

Source

Kling, Jeffrey R. (2001) “Interpreting Instrumental Variables Estimates of the Return to Schooling”, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 19(3), july, 358–364.

Dehejia, R.H. and S. Wahba (2002) “Propensity-score Matching Methods for Nonexperimental Causal Studies”, Restat, 151–161.

References

Cameron, A.C. and P.K. Trivedi (2005) Microeconometrics : methods and applications, Cambridge.

See Also

Index.Source, Index.Economics, Index.Econometrics, Index.Observations,

Index.Time.Series


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