R Dataset / Package Ecdat / Mroz

On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the Mroz data set which pertains to Labor Supply Data . The Mroz data set is found in the Ecdat R package. You can load the Mroz data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("Mroz"). This will load the data into a variable called Mroz. If R says the Mroz 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 Mroz R data set. The size of this file is about 49,879 bytes.

Labor Supply Data

Description

a cross-section

number of observations : 753

observation : individuals

country : United States

Usage

data(Mroz)

Format

A dataframe containing :

work: participation in 1975 ?
hoursw: wife's hours of work in 1975
child6: number of children less than 6 years old in household
child618: number of children between ages 6 and 18 in household
agew: wife's age
educw: wife's educational attainment, in years
hearnw: wife's average hourly earnings, in 1975 dollars
wagew: wife's wage reported at the time of the 1976 interview (not= 1975 estimated wage)
hoursh: husband's hours worked in 1975
ageh: husband's age
educh: husband's educational attainment, in years
wageh: husband's wage, in 1975 dollars
income: family income, in 1975 dollars
educwm: wife's mother's educational attainment, in years
educwf: wife's father's educational attainment, in years
unemprate: unemployment rate in county of residence, in percentage points
city: lives in large city (SMSA) ?
experience: actual years of wife's previous labor market experience

Source

Mroz, T. (1987) “The sensitivity of an empirical model of married women's hours of work to economic and statistical assumptions”, Econometrica, 55, 765-799.

1976 Panel Study of Income Dynamics.

References

Greene, W.H. (2003) Econometric Analysis, Prentice Hall, http://www.prenhall.com/greene/greene1.html, Table F4.1.

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