mroz.def taxableinc federaltax hsiblings hfathereduc hmothereduc siblings lfp hours kidsl6 kids618 age educ wage wage76 hhours hage heduc hwage faminc mtr mothereduc fathereduc unenployment largecity exper Obs: 753 variable description ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- taxableinc Taxable income for household federaltax Federal income taxes hsiblings husband's number of siblings hfathereduc husband's father's education level hmothereduc husband's mothers's education level siblings Wife's number of siblings lfp dummy variable = 1 if woman worked in 1975, else 0 hours Wife's hours of work in 1975 kidsl6 Number of children less than 6 years old in household kids618 Number of children between ages 6 and 18 in household age Wife's age educ Wife's educational attainment, in years wage Wife's 1975 average hourly earnings, in 1975 dollars wage76 Wife's wage reported at 1976 interview, for 1976 hhours Husband's hours worked in 1975 hage Husband's age heduc Husband's educational attainment, in years hwage Husband's wage, in 1975 dollars faminc Family income, in 1975 dollars mtr marginal tax rate facing the wife, includes Soc Sec taxes mothereduc wife's mother's education level fathereduc wife's father's education level unemployment Unemployment rate in county of residence bigcity Dummy variable = 1 if live in large city (SMSA), else 0 exper Actual years of wife's previous labor market experience THE MROZ DATA FILE IS TAKEN FROM THE 1976 PANEL STUDY OF INCOME DYNAMICS, AND IS BASED ON DATA FOR THE PREVIOUS YEAR, 1975. 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. These data were kindly provided by Professor Tom Mroz. See the original article for additional detail: Mroz, T. A. (1987) "The sensitivity of an empirical model of a married woman's hours of work to economic and statistical assumptions," Econometrica, 55, 765-800. Variable | Obs Mean Std. Dev. Min Max -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- taxableinc | 753 21151.9 11891.38 1500 96000 federaltax | 753 3275.851 3477.541 0 31386 hsiblings | 753 3.450199 2.40743 0 8 hfathereduc | 753 8.524568 3.217265 0 17 hmothereduc | 753 9.2417 3.355293 0 17 -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- siblings | 753 3.253652 2.312821 0 8 lfp | 753 .5683931 .4956295 0 1 hours | 753 740.5764 871.3142 0 4950 kidsl6 | 753 .2377158 .523959 0 3 kids618 | 753 1.353254 1.319874 0 8 -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- age | 753 42.53785 8.072574 30 60 educ | 753 12.28685 2.280246 5 17 wage | 753 2.374565 3.241829 0 25 wage76 | 753 1.849734 2.419887 0 9.98 hhours | 753 2267.271 595.5666 175 5010 -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- hage | 753 45.12085 8.058793 30 60 heduc | 753 12.49137 3.020804 3 17 hwage | 753 7.482179 4.230559 .4121 40.509 faminc | 753 23080.59 12190.2 1500 96000 mtr | 753 .6788632 .0834955 .4415 .9415 -------------+-------------------------------------------------------- mothereduc | 753 9.250996 3.367468 0 17 fathereduc | 753 8.808765 3.57229 0 17 unenployment | 753 8.623506 3.114934 3 14 largecity | 753 .6427623 .4795042 0 1 exper | 753 10.63081 8.06913 0 45