catholic

Description

Wooldridge Source: Altonji, J.G., T.E. Elder, and C.R. Taber (2005), “An Evaluation of Instrumental Variable Strategies for Estimating the Effects of Catholic Schooling,” Journal of Human Resources 40, 791-821. Professor Elder kindly provided a subset of the data, with some variables stripped away for confidentiality reasons. Data loads lazily.

Usage

data('catholic')

Format

A data.frame with 7430 observations on 13 variables:

• id: person identifier

• read12: reading standardized score

• math12: mathematics standardized score

• female: =1 if female

• asian: =1 if Asian

• hispan: =1 if Hispanic

• black: =1 if black

• motheduc: mother's years of education

• fatheduc: father's years of education

• lfaminc: log of family income

• hsgrad: =1 if graduated from high school by 1994

• cathhs: =1 if attended Catholic HS

• parcath: =1 if a parent reports being Catholic

Used in Text

pages 267, 551

Source

http://www.cengage.com/c/introductory-econometrics-a-modern-approach-6e-wooldridge

Examples

 str(catholic)