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Card and Krueger (1994) fastfood data set
Description
Card and Krueger (1994) fastfood data set
Usage
data(Fastfood)
Format
A data frame with 820 rows and 35 variables:
- id
ID of fastfood restaurant [+]
- sheet
sheet number (unique store id)
- after
1 if second interview [+]
- chain
chain 1=bk; 2=kfc; 3=roys; 4=wendys
- co_owned
1 if company owned
- nj
1 if NJ; 0 if Pa
- southj
1 if in southern NJ
- centralj
1 if in central NJ
- northj
1 if in northern NJ
- pa1
1 if in PA, northeast suburbs of Philadelphia
- pa2
1 if in PA, Easton etc
- shore
1 if on NJ shore
- type2
type 2nd interview 1=phone; 2=personal
- status2
status of second interview; see details
- date2
date of second interview MMDDYY format
- ncalls
number of call-backs*
- empft
# full-time employees
- emppt
# part-time employees
- nmgrs
# managers/assistant managers
- fte
full time equivalent, FTE = empft + nmgrs + 0-.5*emppt [+]
- dfte
FTE for after - FTE for before [+]
- wage_st
starting wage ($/hr)
- inctime
months to usual first raise
- firstinc
usual amount of first raise ($/hr)
- bonus
1 if cash bounty for new workers
- pctaff
% employees affected by new minimum
- meals
free/reduced price code (see details)
- open
hour of opening
- hrsopen
number hrs open per day
- psoda
price of medium soda, including tax
- pfry
price of small fries, including tax
- pentree
price of entree, including tax
- nregs
number of cash registers in store
- nregs11
number of registers open at 11:00 am
- balanced
1 if empft, nmgrs and emppt observed both periods [+]
Details
See attr(Fastfood, "desc"). [+] are added by Chirok Han.
Author(s)
NA
Source
https://davidcard.berkeley.edu/data_sets.html
References
Card, D., and A. Krueger (1994). Minimum Wages and Employment: A Case Study of the Fast Food Industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, American Economic Review 84, 772-793.