Mroz                  package:Ecdat                  R Documentation

_L_a_b_o_r _S_u_p_p_l_y _D_a_t_a

_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     a cross-section

     _number of observations_ :  753

     _observation_ :  individuals

     _country_ :  United States

_U_s_a_g_e:

     data(Mroz)

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

     A dataframe containing :

     _w_o_r_k participation in 1975 ? a factor

     _h_o_u_r_s_w wife's hours of work in 1975

     _c_h_i_l_d_6 number of children less than 6 years old in household

     _c_h_i_l_d_6_1_8 number of children between ages 6 and 18 in household

     _a_g_e_w wife's age

     _e_d_u_c_w wife's educational attainment, in years

     _h_e_a_r_n_w wife's average hourly earnings, in 1975 dollars

     _w_a_g_e_w wife's wage reported at the time of the 1976 interview 
          (not= 1975 estimated wage)

     _h_o_u_r_s_h husband's hours worked in 1975

     _a_g_e_h husband's age

     _e_d_u_c_h husband's educational attainment, in years

     _w_a_g_e_h husband's wage, in 1975 dollars

     _i_n_c_o_m_e family income, in 1975 dollars

     _e_d_u_c_w_m wife's mother's educational attainment, in years

     _e_d_u_c_w_f wife's father's educational attainment, in years

     _u_n_e_m_p_r_a_t_e unemployment rate in county of residence, in percentage
          points

     _c_i_t_y lives in large city (SMSA) ? a factor

     _e_x_p_e_r_i_e_n_c_e actual years of wife's previous labor market experience

_S_o_u_r_c_e:

     Mroz, T. (1987) "The sensivity of an empirical model of married
     women's hours of work to economic and statistical assumptions",
     _Econometrica _, *55*, 765-799.

     1976 Panel Study of Income Dynamics.

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     Greene, W.H. (2003) _Econometric Analysis_, Prentice Hall, <URL:
     http://www.prenhall.com/greene/greene1.html>, Table F4.1.

_S_e_e _A_l_s_o:

     'Index.Books', 'Index.Economics', 'Index.Econometrics',
     'Index.Observations'

