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Ecdat (version 0.2-9)

RetSchool: Return to Schooling

Description

a panel of 48 observations from 1970 to 1986

number of observations : 5225

observation : individuals

country : United States

Usage

data(RetSchool)

Arguments

Format

A time serie containing :
wage76
wage in 1876
grade76
grade level in 1976
exp76
experience 1n 1976
black
black ?
south76
lived in south in 1976 ?
smsa76
lived in smsa in 1976 ?
region
region, a factor with levels (un,midatl,enc,wnc,sa,esc,wsc,m,p)
smsa66
lived in smsa in 1966 ?
momdad14
lived with both parents at age 14 ?
sinmom14
lived with mother only at age 14 ?
nodaded
father has no formal eduction ?
nomomed
mother has no formal education ?
daded
mean grade level of father
momed
mean grade level of mother
famed
father's and mother's education, a factor with 9 levels
age76
age in 1976
col4
is any 4-year college nearby ?

Source

Kling, Jeffrey R. (2001) “Interpreting Instrumental Variables Estimates of the Return to Schooling”, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 19(3), july, 358--364. Dehejia, R.H. and S. Wahba (2002) “Propensity-score Matching Methods for Nonexperimental Causal Studies”, Restat, 151--161.

References

Cameron, A.C. and P.K. Trivedi (2005) Microeconometrics : methods and applications, Cambridge.

See Also

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

Index.Time.Series