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Ecdat (version 0.2-9)

Mroz: Labor Supply Data

Description

a cross-section

number of observations : 753

observation : individuals

country : United States

Usage

data(Mroz)

Arguments

Format

A dataframe containing :
work
participation in 1975 ?
hoursw
wife's hours of work in 1975
child6
number of children less than 6 years old in household
child618
number of children between ages 6 and 18 in household
agew
wife's age
educw
wife's educational attainment, in years
hearnw
wife's average hourly earnings, in 1975 dollars
wagew
wife's wage reported at the time of the 1976 interview (not= 1975 estimated wage)
hoursh
husband's hours worked in 1975
ageh
husband's age
educh
husband's educational attainment, in years
wageh
husband's wage, in 1975 dollars
income
family income, in 1975 dollars
educwm
wife's mother's educational attainment, in years
educwf
wife's father's educational attainment, in years
unemprate
unemployment rate in county of residence, in percentage points
city
lives in large city (SMSA) ?
experience
actual years of wife's previous labor market experience

Source

Mroz, T. (1987) “The sensivity of an empirical model of married women's hours of work to economic and statistical assumptions”, Econometrica, 55, 765-799. 1976 Panel Study of Income Dynamics.

References

Greene, W.H. (2003) Econometric Analysis, Prentice Hall, http://www.prenhall.com/greene/greene1.html, Table F4.1.

See Also

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