wage {statsr}

Wage data

Description

The data were gathered as part of a random sample of 935 respondents throughout the United States.

Usage

wage

Format

A tbl_df with with 935 rows and 17 variables:

wage

weekly earnings (dollars)

hours

average hours worked per week

iq

IQ score

kww

Knowledge of world work score

educ

years of education

exper

years of work experience

tenure

years with current employer

age

age in years

married

=1 if married

black

=1 if black

south

=1 if live in south

urban

=1 if live in a Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area

sibs

number of siblings

brthord

birth order

meduc

mother's education (years)

feduc

father's education (years)

lwage

natural log of wage

Source

Jeffrey M. Wooldridge (2000). Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach. South-Western College Publishing.