Earnings {ETM}R Documentation

Earnings for three age groups

Description

a cross-section from 1988-1989

number of observations : 4266

observation : individuals

country : United States

Usage

data(Earnings)

Format

A dataframe containing :

ID
the observation number
g1
dummy variable for individuals in group 1
g2
dummy variable for individuals in group 2
g3
dummy variable for individuals in group 3
y
average annual earnings, in 1982 US dollars

Note

“They are average annual earnings in 1988 and 1989, in 1982 US dollars, for individuals in three age groups. See the paper for details.”

Source

Mills, Jeffery A. and Sourushe Zandvakili (1997) “Statistical Inference via Bootstrapping for Measures of Inequality”, Journal of Applied Econometrics , 12(2), pp. 133-150.

References

Davidson, R. and James G. MacKinnon (2004) Econometric Theory and Methods, New York, Oxford University Press, chapter 5 and 7.


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