Mroz87 U.S. Women’s Labor Force Participation I put the data at http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~rag/stat209/Mroz87.dat Data available in various R packages--micEcon, sampleSelection, Ecdat etc Description The Mroz87 data frame contains data about 753 married women. These data are collected within the "Panel Study of Income Dynamics" (PSID). Of the 753 observations, the first 428 are for women with positive hours worked in 1975, while the remaining 325 observations are for women who did not work for pay in 1975. A more complete discussion of the data is found in Mroz (1987), Appendix 1. Usage data(Mroz87) Format This data frame contains the following columns: lfp Dummy variable for labor-force participation. hours Wife’s hours of work in 1975. kids5 Number of children 5 years old or younger. kids618 Number of children 6 to 18 years old. age Wife’s age. educ Wife’s educational attainment, in years. wage Wife’s average hourly earnings, in 1975 dollars. repwage Wife’s wage reported at the time of the 1976 interview. hushrs Husband’s hours worked in 1975. husage Husband’s age. huseduc Husband’s educational attainment, in years. huswage Husband’s wage, in 1975 dollars. faminc Family income, in 1975 dollars. mtr Marginal tax rate facing the wife. motheduc Wife’s mother’s educational attainment, in years. fatheduc Wife’s father’s educational attainment, in years. unem Unemployment rate in county of residence, in percentage points. city Dummy variable = 1 if live in large city, else 0. exper Actual years of wife’s previous labor market experience. nwifeinc Non-wife income. wifecoll Dummy variable for wife’s college attendance. huscoll Dummy variable for husband’s college attendance. Source Mroz, T. A. (1987) The sensitivity of an empirical model of married women’s hours of work to economic and statistical assumptions. Econometrica 55, 765–799. PSID Staff, The Panel Study of Income Dynamics, Institute for Social ResearchPanel Study of Income Dynamics, University of Michigan, http://psidonline.isr.umich.edu. References Fox, J. (2004) car: The Companion to Applied Regression Libary - An R and S-PLUS Companion to Applied Regression, http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Books/Companion/car.html.