Description

The uswages data frame has 2000 rows and 10 columns. Weekly Wages for US male workers sampled from the Current Population Survey in 1988.

Usage

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

wage

Real weekly wages in dollars (deflated by personal consumption expenditures - 1992 base year)

educ

Years of education

exper

Years of experience

race

1 if Black, 0 if White (other races not in sample)

smsa

1 if living in Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area, 0 if not

ne

1 if living in the North East

mw

1 if living in the Midwest

we

1 if living in the West

so

1 if living in the South

pt

1 if working part time, 0 if not

Source

Bierens, H.J., and D. Ginther (2001): "Integrated Conditional Moment Testing of Quantile Regression Models", Empirical Economics 26, 307-324