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Panel Study of Income Dynamics 1976 Extract
Description
Cross-section data originating from the 1976 Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). The dataset includes demographic and economic characteristics of married women and their husbands, and is commonly used for analyzing female labor force participation.
Usage
data(PSID1976)
Format
A data frame with 753 observations on the following 22 variables.
- age
age of the woman
- city
dummy for living in a city
- college
dummy for college education (woman)
- education
years of education (woman)
- experience
years of labor market experience
- feducation
father's years of education
- fincome
family income in 1,000s
- hage
husband's age
- hcollege
dummy for husband's college education
- heducation
husband's years of education
- hhours
husband's weekly working hours
- hours
woman's weekly working hours
- hwage
husband's log hourly wage
- meducation
mother's years of education
- oldkids
number of children older than 6
- participation
dummy for woman's labor force participation
- repwage
replacement wage (predicted wage if not employed)
- tax
marginal tax rate
- unemp
state unemployment rate
- wage
log hourly wage of the woman
- youngkids
number of children 6 or younger
References
Mroz, T. A. (1987). The sensitivity of an empirical model of married women's hours of work to economic and statistical assumptions. *Econometrica*, 55(4), 765–799.
Examples
data(PSID1976)
head(PSID1976)