Rolf Aaberge, Ugo Colombino, and Steinar Strøm, "Labor Supply in Italy: An Empirical Analysis of Joint Household Decisions, with Taxes and Quantity Constraints", Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 14, No. 4, 1999, pp. 403-422. This README file is a documentation for the file LSIT.ACS, which contains the data used for the paper above. This file, which is in DOS format, is zipped in the file acs-data.zip. LSIT.ACS is an ASCII file. It occupies 318 KB. It contains 2953 household observations (records), with the following variables. The variables are formatted but can also be read simply as unformatted numbers separated by spaces. COLUMNS VARIABLE 1-8: husband's hourly gross wage rate (italian lire 1987) 10-17: wife's hourly gross wage rate (italian lire 1987) 19-22: husband's hours od work 24-27: wife's hours of work 29-36: husband's gross unearned income (000s italian lire 1987) 38-45: wife's gross unearned income (000s italian lire 1987) 47-54: husband's taxable income (000s italian lire 1987) 56-63: wife's taxable income (000s italian lire 1987) 65-67: husband's tax credits (000s italian lire 1987) 69-71: wife's tax credits (000s italian lire 1987) 73-75: monthly family benefits (italian lire 1987) 77-84: household net disposable income (000s italian lire 1987) 86-86: number of children 0-5 years old 88-88: number of children over 5 years old 90-91: husband's potential experience = age-education-6 93-94: wife's potential experience = age-education-6 96-97: husband's years of education 99-100: wife's years of education 102-102: regional dummy (=1 if the household lives in a northern region(*); =0 otherwise) 104-108: #questionnaire (household identification number) (*) Piemonte, Valle d'Aosta, Lombardia, Trentino-Alto Adige, Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Liguria, Emilia-Romagna.