Format
A dataframe containing :
- smsa66
- lived in smsa in 1966 ?
- smsa76
- lived in smsa in 1976 ?
- nearc2
- grew up near 2-yr college ?
- nearc4
- grew up near 4-yr college ?
- nearc4a
- grew up near 4-year public college ?
- nearc4b
- grew up near 4-year private college ?
- ed76
- education in 1976
- ed66
- education in 1966
- age76
- age in 1976
- daded
- dads education (imputed avg if missing)
- nodaded
- dads education imputed ?
- momed
- mothers education
- nomomed
- moms education imputed ?
- momdad14
- lived with mom and dad at age 14 ?
- sinmom14
- single mom at age 14 ?
- step14
- step parent at age 14 ?
- south66
- lived in south in 1966 ?
- south76
- lived in south in 1976 ?
- lwage76
- log wage in 1976 (outliers trimmed)
- famed
- mom-dad education class (1-9)
- black
- black ?
- wage76
- wage in 1976 (raw, cents per hour)
- enroll76
- enrolled in 1976 ?
- kww
- the kww score
- iqscore
- a normed IQ score
- mar76
- married in 1976 ?
- libcrd14
- library card in home at age 14 ?
- exp76
- experience in 1976
Source
National Longitudinal Survey of Young Men (NLSYM) . Card, D. (1995) Using geographical variation in college proximity to estimate the return to schooling in Christofides, L.N., E.K. Grant and R. Swidinsky (1995) Aspects of labour market behaviour : essays in honour of John Vanderkamp, University of Toronto Press, Toronto .