Ecdat (version 0.3-9)

HI: Health Insurance and Hours Worked By Wives

Description

a cross-section from 1993

number of observations : 22272

observation : individuals

country : United States

Usage

data(HI)

Arguments

Format

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

References

Journal of Applied Econometrics data archive : http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/jae/.

See Also

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