Mroz87                package:micEcon                R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     The 'Mroz87' data frame contains data about 753 married women.
     These data are collected within the "Panel Study of Income
     Dynamics" (PSID). Of the 753 observations, the first 428 are for
     women with positive hours worked in 1975, while the remaining 325
     observations are for women who did not work for pay in 1975.  A
     more complete discussion of the data is found in Mroz (1987),
     Appendix 1.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     data(Mroz87)

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

     This data frame contains the following columns:

     _l_f_p Dummy variable for labor-force participation.

     _h_o_u_r_s Wife's hours of work in 1975.

     _k_i_d_s_5 Number of children 5 years old or younger.

     _k_i_d_s_6_1_8 Number of children 6 to 18 years old.

     _a_g_e Wife's age.

     _e_d_u_c Wife's educational attainment, in years.

     _w_a_g_e Wife's average hourly earnings, in 1975 dollars.

     _r_e_p_w_a_g_e Wife's wage reported at the time of the 1976 interview.

     _h_u_s_h_r_s Husband's hours worked in 1975.

     _h_u_s_a_g_e Husband's age.

     _h_u_s_e_d_u_c Husband's educational attainment, in years.

     _h_u_s_w_a_g_e Husband's wage, in 1975 dollars.

     _f_a_m_i_n_c Family income, in 1975 dollars.

     _m_t_r Marginal tax rate facing the wife.

     _m_o_t_h_e_d_u_c Wife's mother's educational attainment, in years.

     _f_a_t_h_e_d_u_c Wife's father's educational attainment, in years.

     _u_n_e_m Unemployment rate in county of residence, in percentage
          points.

     _c_i_t_y Dummy variable = 1 if live in large city, else 0.

     _e_x_p_e_r Actual years of wife's previous labor market experience.

     _n_w_i_f_e_i_n_c Non-wife income.

     _w_i_f_e_c_o_l_l Dummy variable for wife's college attendance.

     _h_u_s_c_o_l_l Dummy variable for husband's college attendance.

_S_o_u_r_c_e:

     Mroz, T. A. (1987) The sensitivity of an empirical model of
     married women's hours of work to economic and statistical
     assumptions. _Econometrica_ *55*, 765-799.

     PSID Staff, The Panel Study of Income Dynamics, Institute for
     Social ResearchPanel Study of Income Dynamics, University of
     Michigan, <URL: http://psidonline.isr.umich.edu>.

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     Fox, J. (2004) 'car': The Companion to Applied Regression Libary -
     An R and S-PLUS Companion to Applied Regression, <URL:
     http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Books/Companion/car.html>.

