Wife Working Hours

Description

a cross-section from 1987

number of observations : 3382

observation : individuals

country : United States

Usage

data(Workinghours)

Format

A dataframe containing :

hours

wife working hours per year

income

the other household income in hundreds of dollars

age

age of the wife

education

education years of the wife

child5

number of children for ages 0 to 5

child13

number of children for ages 6 to 13

child17

number of children for ages 14 to 17

nonwhite

non–white ?

owned

is the home owned by the household ?

mortgage

is the home on mortgage ?

occupation

occupation of the husband, one of mp (manager or

unemp

local unemployment rate in %

Source

Lee, Myoung–Jae (1995) “Semi–parametric estimation of simultaneous equations with limited dependent variables : a case study of female labour supply”, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 10(2), april–june, 187–200.

References

Journal of Applied Econometrics data archive : http://jae.wiley.com/jae/.

See Also

Index.Source, Index.Economics, Index.Econometrics, Index.Observations