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Level of Calculus Attained for Students Taking Advanced Micro–economics
Description
a cross-section from 1983 to 1986
number of observations : 609
observation : individuals
country : United States
Usage
data(Mathlevel)
Format
A dataframe containing :
- mathlevel
- highest level of math attained , an ordered factor with levels 170, 171a, 172, 171b, 172b, 221a, 221b
- sat
- sat Math score
- language
- foreign language proficiency ?
- sex
- male, female
- major
- one of other, eco, oss (other social sciences), ns (natural sciences), hum (humanities)
- mathcourse
- number of courses in advanced math (0 to 3)
- physiccourse
- number of courses in physics (0 to 2)
- chemistcourse
- number of courses in chemistry (0 to 2)
Source
Butler, J.S., T. Aldrich Finegan and John J. Siegfried (1998) “Does more calculus improve student learning in intermediate micro and macroeconomic theory ?”, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 13(2), april, 185–202.
References
Journal of Applied Econometrics data archive : http://jae.wiley.com/jae/.
See Also
Index.Source, Index.Economics, Index.Econometrics, Index.Observations
[Package
Ecdat version 0.1-5
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