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Health Insurance and Hours Worked By Wives
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Description
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a cross-section from 1993

*number of observations* : 22272

*observation* : individuals

*country* : United States

Usage
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::

    data(HI)

Format
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A dataframe containing :

whrswk
    hours worked per week by wife

hhi
    wife covered by husband's HI ?

whi
    wife has HI thru her job ?

hhi2
    husband has HI thru own job ?

education
    a factor with levels, "<9years", "9-11years", "12years",
    "13-15years", "16years", ">16years"

race
    one of white, black, other

hispanic
    hispanic ?

experience
    years of potential work experience

kidslt6
    number of kids under age of 6

kids618
    number of kids 6–18 years old

husby
    husband's income in thousands of dollars

region
    one of other, northcentral, south, west

wght
    sampling weight

Source
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Olson, Craig A. (1998) “A comparison of parametric and semiparametric
estimates of the effect of spousal healpth insurance coverage on weekly
hours worked by wiwes”, *Journal of Applied Econometrics*, **13(5)**,
september–october, 543–565.

References
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Journal of Applied Econometrics data archive :
`http://jae.wiley.com/jae/ <http://jae.wiley.com/jae/>`_.

See Also
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``Index.Source``, ``Index.Economics``, ``Index.Econometrics``,
``Index.Observations``
