R Dataset / Package Ecdat / Griliches

On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the Griliches data set which pertains to Wage Datas . The Griliches data set is found in the Ecdat R package. You can load the Griliches data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("Griliches"). This will load the data into a variable called Griliches. If R says the Griliches data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("Ecdat") and then attempt to reload the data with the library() command. If you need to download R, you can go to the R project website. You can download a CSV (comma separated values) version of the Griliches R data set. The size of this file is about 64,738 bytes.

Wage Datas

Description

a cross-section from 1980

number of observations : 758

observation : individuals

country : United States

Usage

data(Griliches)

Format

A dataframe containing :

rns: residency in the southern states (first observation) ?
rns80: same variable for 1980
mrt: married (first observation) ?
mrt80: same variable for 1980
smsa: residency in metropolitan areas (first observation) ?
smsa80: same variable for 1980
med: mother's education in years
iq: IQ score
kww: score on the “knowledge of the world of work” test
year: year of the observation
age: age (first observation)
age80: same variable for 1980
school: completed years of schooling (first observation)
school80: same variable for 1980
expr: experience in years (first observation)
expr80: same variable for 1980
tenure: tenure in years (first observation)
tenure80: same variable for 1980
lw: log wage (first observation)
lw80: same variable for 1980

Source

Blackburn, M. and Neumark D. (1992) “Unobserved ability, efficiency wages, and interindustry wage differentials”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 107, 1421-1436.

References

Hayashi, F. (2000) Econometrics, Princeton University Press, http://fhayashi.fc2web.com/hayashi_econometrics.htm, chapter 3, 250-256.

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