PSID1976 {HeckmanStan}R Documentation

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)


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