Arnstein Aassve, Simon Burgess, Andrew Chesher, and Carol Propper,
"Transitions from Home to Marriage of Young Americans", Journal of
Applied Econometrics, Vol. 17, No. 1, 2002, pp. 1-23.

All data are in the file aassve_et_al.data, which is an ASCII file in DOS
format. It is zipped in the file aassve_et_al.zip. Unix users should use
"unzip -a".

The data were taken from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. The data
set has 51 variables and 5559 observations. The data are in comma-delimited
ASCII format, where each line refers to one individual in the data set. The
file is 1404733 bytes.


Col 1:		Id number

Col 2-10:	Indicator for which state the individual occupies. State 1:
		Living at home, State 2: Living alone, and State 3: Married

		For instance, an individual who lives at home, then alone,
		then gets married, will have the value 1 in column 2, value
		2 in column 3 and value 3 in column 4. Columns 5 to 9 will
		be missing. Another example: an individual lives at home,
		then alone, then moves back home, then gets married. The
		values will then be 1 in col 2, 2 in col 3, 1 in col 4 and 3
		in col 5.

Col 11-19:	Durations for each state, in years. Variables are missing
		when the respondent reaches the absorbing state of marriage.
		Consequently no duration is given when state 3 is reached.

Col 20:		Indicator for transition history type.

Col 21:		Constant value

Col 22:		Sex: 1 if female

Col 23:		Race: 1 if African American

Col 24:		Race: 1 if White

Col 25:		Educational attainment: 1 if completed high-school

Col 26:		Educational attainment: 1 if college

Col 27:		1 if lived with both parents

Col 28:		Age of respondent in 1979

Col 29:		Family income in 1979

Col 30-51:	Predicted wages from year 1971 to 1992. I.e. col 30 contains
		predicted wages in 1971 and col 51 contains predicted wages
		in 1992.