R: Earnings data

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Earnings {Ecdat}

R Documentation

Earnings for Three Age Groups

Description

a cross-section from 1988-1989

number of observations : 4266

observation : individuals

country : United States

Usage

data(Earnings)

Format

A dataframe containing :

age

age groups, a factor with levels (g1,g2,g3)

y

average annual earnings, in 1982 US dollars

Source

Mills, Jeffery A. and Sourushe Zandvakili (1997) “Statistical Inference via Bootstrapping for Measures of Inequality”, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 12(2), pp. 133-150.

References

Davidson, R. and James G. MacKinnon (2004) Econometric Theory and Methods, New York, Oxford University Press, http://www.econ.queensu.ca/ETM/, chapter 5 and 7.

Journal of Applied Econometrics data archive : http://jae.wiley.com/jae/.

See Also

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

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[Package Ecdat version 0.1-5 Index]

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To begin work - copy and paste the following as the first line in the box below: library(Ecdat); data(Earnings); attach(Earnings)
Variables:   "age" "y"