Griliches: Return to Education Data

Description Usage Format Source References

Description

Labour data on 758 young workers between 16 and 30 years hold. Each observation provides information on one individual at two points in time: in 1980 (variable with 80) and in the year given be the YEAR (variable without 80).

Usage

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data("Griliches")

Format

A data.frame with 758 observations and 20 variables.

RNS, RNS80

Dummy for residency in the southern states

MRT, MRT80

Dummy for marital status (1 if married)

SMSA, SMSA80

Dummy for residency in metropolitan areas

MED

Mother's education in years

IQ

IQ score

KWW

"Knowledge of the World of Work" test score

Year

The year of the first observation

AGE, AGE80

Age in years

S, S80

Completed years of schooling

EXPR, EXPR80

Experience in years

TENURE, TENURE80

Tenure im years

LW, LW80

log wage

Source

Online complements of Fumio Hayashi (2000)

References

Griliches, Z. (1976). Wages of Very Young Men. Journal of Political Economy, 84, S69–S85.

Blackburn, M. and Neumark, D. (1992). Unobserved Ability, Efficiency Wages, and Interindustry Wage Differentials. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 107, 1421–1436.

Hayashi, F. (2000). Econometrics, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.


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