Author: Meng Hu (Page 6 of 6)

I examine here the magnitude of the BW gap at different levels of parental education, using the NLSY97. You need to download a collection of variables in the NLS Investigator. The relevant ones for the present analysis are R1302400, R1302500, R1482600, R0538700, R0538600, and R9829600. You can check these variables using the “Variable Search” option in the NLS Investigator. And you may need a SPSS or PSPP program. In the SPSS (or PSPP) program, click on File, Open, and then Syntax, to upload the collection of variables you have downloaded from the NLS I (you should have transferred  your files into a new file located in your “Documents and Settings” folder). Recall that your handle file should look like this, or otherwise the recoding will not work.

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