On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the Griliches data set which pertains to Wage Datas . The Griliches data set is found in the Ecdat R package. You can load the Griliches data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("Griliches"). This will load the data into a variable called Griliches. If R says the Griliches data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("Ecdat") and then attempt to reload the data. If you need to download R, you can go to the R project website. You can download a CSV (comma separated values) version of the Griliches R data set. The size of this file is about 64,738 bytes.

Wage Datas

Description

a cross-section from 1980

number of observations : 758

observation : individuals

country : United States

Usage

data(Griliches)

Format

A dataframe containing :

rns

residency in the southern states (first observation) ?

rns80

same variable for 1980

mrt

married (first observation) ?

mrt80

same variable for 1980

smsa

residency in metropolitan areas (first observation) ?

smsa80

same variable for 1980

med

mother's education in years

iq

IQ score

kww

score on the “knowledge of the world of work” test

year

year of the observation

age

age (first observation)

age80

same variable for 1980

school

completed years of schooling (first observation)

school80

same variable for 1980

expr

experience in years (first observation)

expr80

same variable for 1980

tenure

tenure in years (first observation)

tenure80

same variable for 1980

lw

log wage (first observation)

lw80

same variable for 1980

Source

Blackburn, M. and Neumark D. (1992) “Unobserved ability, efficiency wages, and interindustry wage differentials”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 107, 1421-1436.

References

Hayashi, F. (2000) Econometrics, Princeton University Press, http://fhayashi.fc2web.com/hayashi_econometrics.htm, chapter 3, 250-256.

See Also

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

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