| catholic | R Documentation |
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.
data('catholic')
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
pages 267, 551
http://www.cengage.com/c/introductory-econometrics-a-modern-approach-6e-wooldridge
str(catholic)