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<h2>Wife Working Hours </h2>

<h3>Description</h3>


<p>a cross-section from 1987
</p>
<p><EM>number of observations</EM> :  3382
</p>
<p><EM>observation</EM> :  individuals
</p>
<p><EM>country</EM> :  United States
</p>


<h3>Usage</h3>

<pre>data(Workinghours)</pre>


<h3>Format</h3>

<p>A dataframe containing :
</p>

<dl>
<dt>hours</dt><dd><p>wife working hours per year</p>
</dd>
<dt>income</dt><dd><p>the other household income in hundreds of dollars</p>
</dd>
<dt>age</dt><dd><p>age of the wife</p>
</dd>
<dt>education</dt><dd><p>education years of the wife</p>
</dd>
<dt>child5</dt><dd><p>number of children for ages 0 to 5</p>
</dd>
<dt>child13</dt><dd><p>number of children for ages 6 to 13</p>
</dd>
<dt>child17</dt><dd><p>number of children for ages 14 to 17</p>
</dd>
<dt>nonwhite</dt><dd><p>non&ndash;white ?</p>
</dd>
<dt>owned</dt><dd><p>is the home owned by the household ?</p>
</dd>
<dt>mortgage</dt><dd><p>is the home on mortgage ?</p>
</dd>
<dt>occupation</dt><dd><p>occupation of the husband, one of mp (manager or</p>
</dd>
<dt>unemp</dt><dd><p>local unemployment rate in %</p>
</dd>
</dl>



<h3>Source</h3>


<p>Lee, Myoung&ndash;Jae (1995) &ldquo;Semi&ndash;parametric estimation of simultaneous equations with limited dependent variables : a case study of female labour supply&rdquo;, <EM>Journal of Applied Econometrics</EM>, <B>10(2)</B>, april&ndash;june, 187&ndash;200.
</p>


<h3>References</h3>


<p>Journal of Applied Econometrics data archive : <a href="http://jae.wiley.com/jae/">http://jae.wiley.com/jae/</a>.
</p>


<h3>See Also</h3>

<p><code>Index.Source</code>, <code>Index.Economics</code>, <code>Index.Econometrics</code>, <code>Index.Observations</code></p>


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