Mroz {car} | R Documentation

## U.S. Women's Labor-Force Participation

### Description

The `Mroz` data frame has 753 rows and 8 columns. The observations, from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), are married women.

### Usage

    Mroz

### Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

lfp

  labor-force participation; a factor with levels: `no`; `yes`.

k5

  number of children 5 years old or younger.

k618

  number of children 6 to 18 years old.

age

  in years.

wc

  wife's college attendance; a factor with levels: `no`; `yes`.

hc

  husband's college attendance; a factor with levels: `no`; `yes`.

lwg

  log expected wage rate; for women in the labor force, the actual wage rate; for women not in the labor force, an imputed value based on the regression of `lwg` on the other variables.

inc

  family income exclusive of wife's income.

### 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.

### References

Fox, J. (2008) Applied Regression Analysis and Generalized Linear Models, Second Edition. Sage.

Fox, J. (2000) Multiple and Generalized Nonparametric Regression. Sage.

Fox, J. and Weisberg, S. (2011) An R Companion to Applied Regression, Second Edition, Sage.

Long. J. S. (1997) Regression Models for Categorical and Limited Dependent Variables. Sage.

[Package car version 2.1-2 Index]