wages {QRegVCM}

The wages dataset

Description

This dataset is taken from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, collected in U.S.A. The data contain repeated measurements for 888 individuals of age 14 – 17 years old.

Usage

wages

Format

a data.frame with 7 variables and 6402 observations.

Details

It contains the following variables:

id

the subject (individual) indicator

exper

the duration of work experience in years

hgc

the highest grade completed by the indiviadual

race

the race of the individual: black, hispanic and white

resp

the hourly wage

r1

the dummy variable for black individuals

r2

the dummy variable for hispanic individuals

References

Murnane, R. J., Willett, J. B., and Boudett, K. P. (1999). Do male dropouts benefit from obtaining a GED, postsecondary education, and training? Evaluation Review, 23(5):475-503.