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Health Insurance and Hours Worked By Wives
Description
a cross-section from 1993
number of observations : 22272
observation : individuals
country : United States
Usage
data(HI)Format
A dataframe containing :
- whrswk
hours worked per week by wife
- hhi
wife covered by husband's HI ?
- whi
wife has HI thru her job ?
- hhi2
husband has HI thru own job ?
- education
a factor with levels, "<9years", "9-11years", "12years", "13-15years", "16years", ">16years"
- race
one of white, black, other
- hispanic
Hispanic ?
- experience
years of potential work experience
- kidslt6
number of kids under age of 6
- kids618
number of kids 6–18 years old
- husby
husband's income in thousands of dollars
- region
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one of
other,northcentral,south,west - wght
sampling weight
Source
Olson, Craig A. (1998) “A comparison of parametric and semiparametric estimates of the effect of spousal health insurance coverage on weekly hours worked by wives”, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 13(5), September–October, 543–565.
References
Journal of Applied Econometrics data archive : http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/jae/.
See Also
Index.Source, Index.Economics, Index.Econometrics, Index.Observations