Fastfood: Card and Krueger (1994) fastfood data set

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Description

Card and Krueger (1994) fastfood data set

Usage

data(Fastfood)

Format

A data frame with 820 rows and 35 variables:

id

ID of fastfood restaurant [+]

sheet

sheet number (unique store id)

after

1 if second interview [+]

chain

chain 1=bk; 2=kfc; 3=roys; 4=wendys

co_owned

1 if company owned

nj

1 if NJ; 0 if Pa

southj

1 if in southern NJ

centralj

1 if in central NJ

northj

1 if in northern NJ

pa1

1 if in PA, northeast suburbs of Phila

pa2

1 if in PA, Easton etc

shore

1 if on NJ shore

type2

type 2nd interview 1=phone; 2=personal

status2

status of second interview; see details

date2

date of second interview MMDDYY format

ncalls

number of call-backs*

empft

# full-time employees

emppt

# part-time employees

nmgrs

# managers/ass't managers

fte

full time equivalent, FTE = empft + nmgrs + 0-.5*emppt [+]

dfte

FTE for after - FTE for before [+]

wage_st

starting wage ($/hr)

inctime

months to usual first raise

firstinc

usual amount of first raise ($/hr)

bonus

1 if cash bounty for new workers

pctaff

% employees affected by new minimum

meals

free/reduced price code (see details)

open

hour of opening

hrsopen

number hrs open per day

psoda

price of medium soda, including tax

pfry

price of small fries, including tax

pentree

price of entree, including tax

nregs

number of cash registers in store

nregs11

number of registers open at 11:00 am

balanced

1 if empft, nmgrs and emppt observed both periods [+]

Details

See attr(Fastfood, "desc"). [+] are added by Chirok Han.

Author(s)

Chirok Han

Source

http://davidcard.berkeley.edu/data_sets.html

References

Card, D., and A. Krueger (1994). Minimum Wages and Employment: A Case Study of the Fast Food Industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, American Economic Review 84, 772-793.

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