Mroz {Greene}R Documentation

Labor supply data

Description

a cross-section

number of observations : 753

observation : individuals

country : United States

Usage

data(Mroz)

Format

A dataframe containing :

LFP
a dummy variable = 1 if woman worked in 1975, else 0
WHRS
wife's hours of work in 1975
KL6
number of children less than 6 years old in household
K618
number of children between ages 6 and 18 in household
WA
wife's age
WE
wife's educational attainment, in years
WW
wife's average hourly earnings, in 1975 dollars
RPWG
wife's wage reported at the time of the 1976 interview (not= 1975 estimated wage)
HHRS
husband's hours worked in 1975
HA
husband's age
HE
husband's educational attainment, in years
HW
husband's wage, in 1975 dollars
FAMINC
family income, in 1975 dollars
MTR
nA
WMED
wife's mother's educational attainment, in years
WFED
wife's father's educational attainment, in years
UN
unemployment rate in county of residence, in percentage points
CIT
dummy variable = one if live in large city (SMSA), else zero
AX
actual years of wife's previous labor market experience

Original description

“from Mroz (1987).”

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, Table F4.1.


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