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Wages and Schooling
Description
a cross-section from 1976
number of observations : 3010
observation : individuals
country : United States
Usage
data(Schooling)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
-
dad's education (imputed avg if missing)
- nodaded
dad's education imputed ?
- momed
mother's education
- nomomed
mom's 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
kwwscore- 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.
References
Verbeek, Marno (2004) A Guide to Modern Econometrics, John Wiley and Sons, chapter 5.
See Also
RetSchool,
Index.Source,
Index.Economics,
Index.Econometrics,
Index.Observations