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Mathlevel: Level of Calculus Attained for Students Taking Advanced Micro--economics

Description

a cross-section from 1983 to 1986

number of observations : 609

observation : individuals

country : United States

Usage

data(Mathlevel)

Arguments

Format

A dataframe containing :
mathlevel
highest level of math attained , an ordered factor with levels 170, 171a, 172, 171b, 172b, 221a, 221b
sat
sat Math score
language
foreign language proficiency ?
sex
male, female
major
one of other, eco, oss (other social sciences), ns (natural sciences), hum (humanities)
mathcourse
number of courses in advanced math (0 to 3)
physiccourse
number of courses in physics (0 to 2)
chemistcourse
number of courses in chemistry (0 to 2)

Source

Butler, J.S., T. Aldrich Finegan and John J. Siegfried (1998) “Does more calculus improve student learning in intermediate micro and macroeconomic theory ?”, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 13(2), april, 185--202.

References

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

See Also

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