mroz

Description

Wooldridge Source: T.A. Mroz (1987), “The Sensitivity of an Empirical Model of Married Women’s Hours of Work to Economic and Statistical Assumptions,” Econometrica 55, 765-799. Professor Ernst R. Berndt, of MIT, kindly provided the data, which he obtained from Professor Mroz. Data loads lazily.

Usage

data('mroz')

Format

A data.frame with 753 observations on 22 variables:

• inlf: =1 if in lab frce, 1975

• hours: hours worked, 1975

• kidslt6: # kids < 6 years

• kidsge6: # kids 6-18

• age: woman's age in yrs

• educ: years of schooling

• wage: est. wage from earn, hrs

• repwage: rep. wage at interview in 1976

• hushrs: hours worked by husband, 1975

• husage: husband's age

• huseduc: husband's years of schooling

• huswage: husband's hourly wage, 1975

• faminc: family income, 1975

• mtr: fed. marg. tax rte facing woman

• motheduc: mother's years of schooling

• fatheduc: father's years of schooling

• unem: unem. rate in county of resid.

• city: =1 if live in SMSA

• exper: actual labor mkt exper

• nwifeinc: (faminc - wage*hours)/1000

• lwage: log(wage)

• expersq: exper^2

Used in Text

pages 249-251, 260, 294, 519-520, 530, 535, 535-536, 565-566, 578-579, 593- 595, 601-603, 619-620, 625

Source

https://www.cengage.com/cgi-wadsworth/course_products_wp.pl?fid=M20b&product_isbn_issn=9781111531041

Examples

 str(mroz)