Stata module to compute decompositions of earnings. A positive relation in dollar terms might be expected between schooling and postschool investments since people with greater ability, opportunity and tastes for learning would. Longitudinal studies such as honig and hanoch 1985b. You should first tabulate age and number of individuals before drawing any graphs. Hi, i am running a regression with logearnings as the dependent variable and age in years, a female. Stata is powerful command driven package for statistical analyses, data. On the stability of ageearnings profiles 533 say much about possible differences in the shape of the earnings profile between educational and occupational groups. Controlling for age in multiple regression cross validated. If we use the generate command to create a new variable, income, that is equal. If you have only 3 individuals in the sample at age 21 and 200 individuals at age 50, it does not make much sense to look at the mean of these 3 individuals. Introduction to stata european university institute. Stata is among the most popular software packages for performing. This paper builds on the literature on age wage and age earnings pro les, dating back to hurd 1971, lillard and willis 1978, mincer 1974, and welch 1979. Many economists use crosssectional ageearnings profiles to describe the course of earnings over the worklife of the average worker.
The first problem is that some dobs have a mmdyyyy format if the day is a single digit number. Hi, i am running a regression with logearnings as the dependent variable and age in years. Using stata for data management and reproducible research. Those who leave school early, for example, earn market wages for more years on average than those who take advantage of extended schooling, but those in the latter group typically. This module may be installed from within stata by typing ssc install decomp. Keep only those observations for adults age 18 and older. Early crosssectional studies nd wage and earnings declines setting in as early as age 40 see willis 1985 for a survey. The second problem is that i want to convert this into age in days from a specific date for all observations, but i dont know how to go about doing so. Introduction to data analysis using stata unuwider. Id like to graph the relationship between predicted logearnings and age holding the. I would like to graph my ageearnings profile in stata.
We argue that such an interpretation is not typically correct. For men and women separately, construct and graph the age profiles of. That aside, the ageearnings profiles on the left, where we have taken the degrees. Useful stata commands for longitudinal data analysis. Log file log using memory allocation set mem dofiles doedit openingsaving a stata datafile quick way of finding variables subsetting using conditional if stata color coding system. If you want to use some variables month, gender, labor, wages you can. On the interpretation of ageearnings profiles springerlink. Graphing age profileincome or consumption relationship. After citing numerous examples of such erroneous interpretations from the literature, we explain why crosssectional profiles fail to accurately portray longitudinal earnings profiles and show how.
We now follow the procedure outlined in the stata logs to plot the profile. Ageearnings profile financial definition of ageearnings. Your profile is best stored in statas startup directory, usually c. One can then compare the profiles of the groups to one another. A chart showing the average or median income for workers over time.
Hi, i am running a regression with logearnings as the dependent variable and age in years, a female dummy variable and a dummy equal to 1 if the individual has a college degree. Other articles where ageearnings profile is discussed. Good methods of interpretation should satisfy three criteria. Stata module to compute decompositions of earnings gaps, statistical software components s425101, boston college department of economics, revised 09 nov 2010. One may make ageearnings profiles for all workers, or one may customize them for workers in different industries or of different demographics. To get this program just type the following into the stata command box and follow the instructions. The program drop statement is needed in case we make changes and need to rerun the do file. A profileplot graphs the levels of several variables for two or more groups. This makes it useful if you wanted to do things like create parallel coordinate plots, but makes it a bit more abstracted from creating line graphs of aggregated data.
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