U.S. Women's Labor-Force Participation

Description

The Mroz data frame has 753 rows and 8 columns. The observations, from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), are married women.

Usage

Mroz

Format

A data frame with 753 rows and 8 variables

lfp

Labor-force participation

k5

Number of children 5 years old or younger

k618

Number of children 6 to 17 years old

age

Age in years

wc

Wife attended college

hc

Husband attended college

lwg

Log expected wage rate. For women in the labor force, the actual wage rate; for women not in the labor force, an imputed value based on the regression of lwg on the other variables.

inc

Family income exclusive of wife's income

Details

This data set is a lightly edited version of the one found in the carData package in R. It is used in the Describing Relationships chapter of The Effect.

Source

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.

John Fox, Sanford Weisberg and Brad Price (2020). carData: Companion to Applied Regression Data Sets. R package version 3.0-4. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=carData

References

Fox, J. (2016) *Applied Regression Analysis and Generalized Linear Models,* Third Edition. Sage.

Fox, J. (2000) *Multiple and Generalized Nonparametric Regression.* Sage.

Fox, J. and Weisberg, S. (2019) *An R Companion to Applied Regression.* Third Edition, Sage.

Long. J. S. (1997) *Regression Models for Categorical and Limited Dependent Variables.* Sage.

Huntington-Klein. 2021. The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality. https://theeffectbook.net.