R: Wages and Schooling

Schooling {Ecdat}

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Wages and Schooling

Description

a cross-section from 1976

number of observations : 3010

observation : individuals

country : United States

Usage

data(Schooling)

Format

A dataframe containing :

smsa66: lived in SMSA in 1966 ?
smsa76: lived in SMSA in 1976 ?
nearc2: grew up near 2-yr college ?
nearc4: grew up near 4-yr college ?
nearc4a: grew up near 4-year public college ?
nearc4b: grew up near 4-year private college ?
ed76: education in 1976
ed66: education in 1966
age76: age in 1976
daded: dad's education (imputed avg if missing)
nodaded: dad's education imputed ?
momed: mother's education
nomomed: mom's education imputed ?
momdad14: lived with mom and dad at age 14 ?
sinmom14: single mom at age 14 ?
step14: step parent at age 14 ?
south66: lived in south in 1966 ?
south76: lived in south in 1976 ?
lwage76: log wage in 1976 (outliers trimmed)
famed: mom-dad education class (1-9)
black: black ?
wage76: wage in 1976 (raw, cents per hour)
enroll76: enrolled in 1976 ?
kww: the kww score
iqscore: a normed IQ score
mar76: married in 1976 ?
libcrd14: library card in home at age 14 ?
exp76: experience in 1976

Source

National Longitudinal Survey of Young Men (NLSYM).

Card, D. (1995) Using geographical variation in college proximity to estimate the return to schooling in Christofides, L.N., E.K. Grant and R. Swidinsky (1995) Aspects of labour market behaviour : essays in honour of John Vanderkamp, University of Toronto Press, Toronto.

References