Wooldridge Source: L.E. Papke (2004), “Individual Financial Decisions in Retirement Saving: The Role of Participant-Direction,” Journal of Public Economics 88, 39-61. Professor Papke kindly provided the data. She collected them from the National Longitudinal Survey of Mature Women, 1991. Data loads lazily.

data('pension')

Format

A data.frame with 194 observations on 19 variables:

  • id: family identifier

  • pyears: years in pension plan

  • prftshr: =1 if profit sharing plan

  • choice: =1 if can choose method invest

  • female: =1 if female

  • married: =1 if married

  • age: age in years

  • educ: highest grade completed

  • finc25: $15,000 < faminc92 <= $25,000

  • finc35: $25,000 < faminc92 <= $35,000

  • finc50: $35,000 < faminc92 <= $50,000

  • finc75: $50,000 < faminc92 <= $75,000

  • finc100: $75,000 < faminc92 <= $100,000

  • finc101: $100,000 < faminc92

  • wealth89: net worth, 1989, $1000

  • black: =1 if black

  • stckin89: =1 if owned stock in 1989

  • irain89: =1 if had IRA in 1989

  • pctstck: 0=mstbnds,50=mixed,100=mststcks

Used in Text

page 506

Examples

 str(pension)
#> 'data.frame':	194 obs. of  19 variables:
#>  $ id      : int  38 152 152 182 222 226 233 233 253 314 ...
#>  $ pyears  : int  1 6 25 20 35 13 2 10 26 5 ...
#>  $ prftshr : int  0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 ...
#>  $ choice  : int  1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 ...
#>  $ female  : int  0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 ...
#>  $ married : int  1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...
#>  $ age     : int  64 56 56 63 67 64 64 64 69 60 ...
#>  $ educ    : int  12 13 12 12 12 11 12 12 12 14 ...
#>  $ finc25  : int  0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 ...
#>  $ finc35  : int  0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 ...
#>  $ finc50  : int  1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
#>  $ finc75  : int  0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 ...
#>  $ finc100 : int  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
#>  $ finc101 : int  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 ...
#>  $ wealth89: num  77.9 154.9 154.9 232.5 179 ...
#>  $ black   : int  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
#>  $ stckin89: int  1 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 ...
#>  $ irain89 : int  1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 ...
#>  $ pctstck : int  0 50 50 100 100 0 100 100 50 50 ...
#>  - attr(*, "time.stamp")= chr "25 Jun 2011 23:03"