Angrist and Krueger (1991) Dataset on Compulsory School Attendance
ak1991.RdSchooling and earnings based on a subsample of men born 1930-1939 from the 1980 census extract. The dataset contains variables related to age, education, earnings, marital status, and geographic information.
Format
A data frame with 329,509 observations across 10 columns.
- ageq
Age, including quarter of birth
- edu
Highest grade completed
- logwage
Log weekly earnings (in dollars)
- married
Married and with spouse present
- qob
Quarter of birth
- black
Black race
- region
Region of residence
- smsa
Works in a standard metropolitan statistical area (SMSA)
- yob
Year of birth
- state
State of birth
Source
Angrist, J., & Krueger, A. (1991). "Does Compulsory School Attendance Affect Schooling and Earnings?" The Quarterly Journal of Economics. Data available at http://economics.mit.edu/faculty/angrist/data1/data/angkru1991