sampleSelection (version 0.6-2)

Mroz87: U.S. Women's Labor Force Participation

Description

The Mroz87 data frame contains data about 753 married women. These data are collected within the "Panel Study of Income Dynamics" (PSID). Of the 753 observations, the first 428 are for women with positive hours worked in 1975, while the remaining 325 observations are for women who did not work for pay in 1975. A more complete discussion of the data is found in Mroz (1987), Appendix 1.

Usage

data(Mroz87)

source

Mroz, T. A. (1987) The sensitivity of an empirical model of married women's hours of work to economic and statistical assumptions. Econometrica 55, 765--799. PSID Staff, The Panel Study of Income Dynamics, Institute for Social ResearchPanel Study of Income Dynamics, University of Michigan, http://psidonline.isr.umich.edu.

References

Fox, J. (2004) car: The Companion to Applied Regression Libary - An R and S-PLUS Companion to Applied Regression, http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Books/Companion/car.html.