R Dataset / Package Ecdat / Schooling

On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the Schooling data set which pertains to Wages and Schooling . The Schooling data set is found in the Ecdat R package. You can load the Schooling data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("Schooling"). This will load the data into a variable called Schooling. If R says the Schooling 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 Schooling R data set. The size of this file is about 392,559 bytes.

Wages and Schooling

Description

a cross-section from 1976

number of observations : 3010

observation : individuals

country : United States

Usage

data(Schooling)

Format

A dataframe containing :

smsa66: lived in smsa in 1966 ?
smsa76: lived in smsa in 1976 ?
nearc2: grew up near 2-yr college ?
nearc4: grew up near 4-yr college ?
nearc4a: grew up near 4-year public college ?
nearc4b: grew up near 4-year private college ?
ed76: education in 1976
ed66: education in 1966
age76: age in 1976
daded: dads education (imputed avg if missing)
nodaded: dads education imputed ?
momed: mothers education
nomomed: moms education imputed ?
momdad14: lived with mom and dad at age 14 ?
sinmom14: single mom at age 14 ?
step14: step parent at age 14 ?
south66: lived in south in 1966 ?
south76: lived in south in 1976 ?
lwage76: log wage in 1976 (outliers trimmed)
famed: mom-dad education class (1-9)
black: black ?
wage76: wage in 1976 (raw, cents per hour)
enroll76: enrolled in 1976 ?
kww: the kww score
iqscore: a normed IQ score
mar76: married in 1976 ?
libcrd14: library card in home at age 14 ?
exp76: experience in 1976

Source

National Longitudinal Survey of Young Men (NLSYM) .

Card, D. (1995) Using geographical variation in college proximity to estimate the return to schooling in Christofides, L.N., E.K. Grant and R. Swidinsky (1995) Aspects of labour market behaviour : essays in honour of John Vanderkamp, University of Toronto Press, Toronto .

References

Verbeek, Marno (2004) A Guide to Modern Econometrics, John Wiley and Sons, chapter 5.

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