R Dataset / Package Ecdat / Wages1

On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the Wages1 data set which pertains to Wages, Experience and Schooling . The Wages1 data set is found in the Ecdat R package. You can load the Wages1 data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("Wages1"). This will load the data into a variable called Wages1. If R says the Wages1 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 Wages1 R data set. The size of this file is about 85,737 bytes.

Wages, Experience and Schooling

Description

a panel of 595 observations from 1976 to 1982

number of observations : 3294

observation : individuals

country : United States

Usage

data(Wages1)

Format

A time serie containing :

exper: experience in years
sex: a factor with levels (male,female)
school: years of schooling
wage: wage (in 1980 \$) per hour

References

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

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