Description

Wooldridge Source: I collected these data from the old Michigan Department of Education web site. See MATHPNL.RAW for the current web site. I used data on most high schools in the state of Michigan for 1993. I dropped some high schools that had suspicious-looking data. Data loads lazily.

Usage

Format

A data.frame with 408 observations on 17 variables:

• lnchprg: perc of studs in sch lnch prog

• enroll: school enrollment

• staff: staff per 1000 students

• expend: expend. per stud, $

• salary: avg. teacher salary, $

• benefits: avg. teacher benefits, $

• droprate: school dropout rate, perc

• gradrate: school graduation rate, perc

• math10: perc studs passing MEAP math

• sci11: perc studs passing MEAP science

• totcomp: salary + benefits

• ltotcomp: log(totcomp)

• lexpend: log of expend

• lenroll: log(enroll)

• lstaff: log(staff)

• bensal: benefits/salary

• lsalary: log(salary)

Notes

Many states have data, at either the district or building level, on student performance and spending. A good exercise in data collection and cleaning is to have students find such data for a particular state, and to put it into a form that can be used for econometric analysis.

Used in Text: pages 50, 65, 111-112, 127-128, 155-156, 219, 336, 339, 696-697

Source

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

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