Teen Poverty

Post date: Nov 13, 2017 8:49:18 PM

The following do file will fetch and clean up the dataset:

• teenpov.do

from: Allison, Paul D.. Fixed Effects Regression Models: 160 (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences) (Kindle Locations 358-365). SAGE Publications. Kindle Edition.

We now apply this method to some real data. Our sample comes from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY; Center for Human Resource Research, 2002).1 Drawing a subset of a much larger sample, we have 581 children who were interviewed in 1990, 1992, and 1994. Initially, we will work with just three variables that were measured in each of the three interviews: ANTI antisocial behavior (scale ranges from 0 to 6) SELF self-esteem (scale ranges from 6 to 24) POV coded 1 if family is in poverty, otherwise 0 At this point, we’re going to ignore the observations in the middle year, 1992, and use only the data in 1990 and 1994. Our objective is to estimate a linear equation with ANTI as the dependent variable2 and SELF and POV as independent variables.

Allison, Paul D.. Fixed Effects Regression Models: 160 (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences) (Kindle Locations 358-365). SAGE Publications. Kindle Edition.