Schooling: Wages and Schooling
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a cross-section from 1976

number of observations : 3010

observation : individuals

country : United States

1	data(Schooling)

A dataframe containing :

smsa66: lived in smsa in 1966 ?
smsa76: lived in smsa in 1976 ?
nearc2: grew up near 2-yr college ?
nearc4: grew up near 4-yr college ?
nearc4a: grew up near 4-year public college ?
nearc4b: grew up near 4-year private college ?
ed76: education in 1976
ed66: education in 1966
age76: age in 1976
daded: dads education (imputed avg if missing)
nodaded: dads education imputed ?
momed: mothers education
nomomed: moms education imputed ?
momdad14: lived with mom and dad at age 14 ?
sinmom14: single mom at age 14 ?
step14: step parent at age 14 ?
south66: lived in south in 1966 ?
south76: lived in south in 1976 ?
lwage76: log wage in 1976 (outliers trimmed)
famed: mom-dad education class (1-9)
black: black ?
wage76: wage in 1976 (raw, cents per hour)
enroll76: enrolled in 1976 ?
kww: the kww score
iqscore: a normed IQ score
mar76: married in 1976 ?
libcrd14: library card in home at age 14 ?
exp76: experience in 1976

National Longitudinal Survey of Young Men (NLSYM) .

Card, D. (1995) Using geographical variation in college proximity to estimate the return to schooling in Christofides, L.N., E.K. Grant and R. Swidinsky (1995) Aspects of labour market behaviour : essays in honour of John Vanderkamp, University of Toronto Press, Toronto .

Verbeek, Marno (2004) A Guide to Modern Econometrics, John Wiley and Sons, chapter 5.

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

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