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Ecdat (version 0.2-9)

HI: Health Insurance and Hours Worked By Wives

Description

a cross-section from 1993

number of observations : 22272

observation : individuals

country : United States

Usage

data(HI)

Arguments

Format

A dataframe containing :
whrswk
hours worked per week by wife
hhi
wife covered by husband's HI ?
whi
wife has HI thru her job ?
hhi2
husband has HI thru own job ?
education
a factor with levels, "<9years", "9-11years",="" "12years",="" "13-15years",="" "16years",="" "="">16years"
race
one of white, black, other
hispanic
hispanic ?
experience
years of potential work experience
kidslt6
number of kids under age of 6
kids618
number of kids 6--18 years old
husby
husband's income in thousands of dollars
region
one of other, northcentral, south, west
wght
sampling weight

Source

Olson, Craig A. (1998) “A comparison of parametric and semiparametric estimates of the effect of spousal healpth insurance coverage on weekly hours worked by wiwes”, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 13(5), september--october, 543--565.

References

Journal of Applied Econometrics data archive : http://jae.wiley.com/jae/.

See Also

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