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<h2>Labor Supply Data </h2>

<h3>Description</h3>


<p>a cross-section
</p>
<p><EM>number of observations</EM> :  753
</p>
<p><EM>observation</EM> :  individuals
</p>
<p><EM>country</EM> :  United States
</p>


<h3>Usage</h3>

<pre>data(Mroz)</pre>


<h3>Format</h3>

<p>A dataframe containing :
</p>

<dl>
<dt>work</dt><dd><p>participation in 1975 ?</p>
</dd>
<dt>hoursw</dt><dd><p>wife's hours of work in 1975</p>
</dd>
<dt>child6</dt><dd><p>number of children less than 6 years old in household</p>
</dd>
<dt>child618</dt><dd><p>number of children between ages 6 and 18 in household</p>
</dd>
<dt>agew</dt><dd><p>wife's age</p>
</dd>
<dt>educw</dt><dd><p>wife's educational attainment, in years</p>
</dd>
<dt>hearnw</dt><dd><p>wife's average hourly earnings, in 1975 dollars</p>
</dd>
<dt>wagew</dt><dd><p>wife's wage reported at the time of the 1976 interview  (not= 1975 estimated wage)</p>
</dd>
<dt>hoursh</dt><dd><p>husband's hours worked in 1975</p>
</dd>
<dt>ageh</dt><dd><p>husband's age</p>
</dd>
<dt>educh</dt><dd><p>husband's educational attainment, in years</p>
</dd>
<dt>wageh</dt><dd><p>husband's wage, in 1975 dollars</p>
</dd>
<dt>income</dt><dd><p>family income, in 1975 dollars</p>
</dd>
<dt>educwm</dt><dd><p>wife's mother's educational attainment, in years</p>
</dd>
<dt>educwf</dt><dd><p>wife's father's educational attainment, in years</p>
</dd>
<dt>unemprate</dt><dd><p>unemployment rate in county of residence, in percentage points</p>
</dd>
<dt>city</dt><dd><p>lives in large city (SMSA) ?</p>
</dd>
<dt>experience</dt><dd><p>actual years of wife's previous labor market experience</p>
</dd>
</dl>



<h3>Source</h3>


<p>Mroz, T. (1987) &ldquo;The sensivity of an empirical model of married women's hours of work to economic and statistical assumptions&rdquo;, <EM>Econometrica</EM>, <B>55</B>, 765-799.
</p>
<p>1976 Panel Study of Income Dynamics.
</p>


<h3>References</h3>


<p>Greene, W.H. (2003) <EM>Econometric Analysis</EM>, Prentice Hall, <a href="http://www.prenhall.com/greene/greene1.html">http://www.prenhall.com/greene/greene1.html</a>, Table F4.1.
</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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