Description

Wooldridge Source: J. Grogger (1991), “Certainty vs. Severity of Punishment,” Economic Inquiry 29, 297-309. Professor Grogger kindly provided a subset of the data he used in his article. Data loads lazily.

Usage

Format

A data.frame with 2725 observations on 16 variables:

• narr86: # times arrested, 1986

• nfarr86: # felony arrests, 1986

• nparr86: # property crme arr., 1986

• pcnv: proportion of prior convictions

• avgsen: avg sentence length, mos.

• tottime: time in prison since 18 (mos.)

• ptime86: mos. in prison during 1986

• qemp86: # quarters employed, 1986

• inc86: legal income, 1986, $100s

• durat: recent unemp duration

• black: =1 if black

• hispan: =1 if Hispanic

• born60: =1 if born in 1960

• pcnvsq: pcnv^2

• pt86sq: ptime86^2

• inc86sq: inc86^2

Used in Text

pages 82-83, 173-174, 180, 252-253, 275, 299, 305-306, 607-608, 625

Source

https://www.cengage.com/cgi-wadsworth/course_products_wp.pl?fid=M20b&product_isbn_issn=9781111531041

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