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Mroz87: U.S. Women's Labor Force Participation (Example dataset)
Description
The Mroz87 data frame contains data about 753 married women. These data are collected within the "Panel Study of Income Dynamics" (PSID). Of the 753 observations, the first 428 are for women with positive hours worked in 1975, while the remaining 325 observations are for women who did not work for pay in 1975. A more complete discussion of the data is found in Mroz (1987), Appendix 1.
Usage
Mroz87
Format
A data frame with 753 observations on the following variables:
- lfp
Dummy variable for labor-force participation.
- hours
Wife's hours of work in 1975.
- kids5
Number of children 5 years old or younger.
- kids618
Number of children 6 to 18 years old.
- age
Wife's age.
- educ
Wife's educational attainment, in years.
- wage
Wife's average hourly earnings, in 1975 dollars.
- repwage
Wife's wage reported at the time of the 1976 interview.
- hushrs
Husband's hours worked in 1975.
- husage
Husband's age.
- huseduc
Husband's educational attainment, in years.
- huswage
Husband's wage, in 1975 dollars.
- faminc
Family income, in 1975 dollars.
- mtr
Marginal tax rate facing the wife.
- motheduc
Wife's mother's educational attainment, in years.
- fatheduc
Wife's father's educational attainment, in years.
- unem
Unemployment rate in county of residence, in percentage points.
- city
Dummy variable = 1 if live in large city, else 0.
- exper
Actual years of wife's previous labor market experience.
- nwifeinc
Non-wife income.
- wifecoll
Dummy variable for wife's college attendance.
- huscoll
Dummy variable for husband's college attendance.
Source
Mroz, T. A. (1987) "The sensitivity of an empirical model of married women's hours of work to economic and statistical assumptions." Econometrica 55, 765–799. PSID Staff, The Panel Study of Income Dynamics, Institute for Social ResearchPanel Study of Income Dynamics, University of Michigan, (For more information, visit the PSID website.).