Christian Belzil and Jorgen Hansen, "The Evolution of the US Family Income-Schooling Relationship and Educational Selectivity", Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 37, No. 7, 2020, pp. 841-859. All data files are ASCII (CSV) files in DOS format. They are zipped in the file bh-data.zip. Unix/Linux users should use "unzip -a". Order of variables in x79_v5.csv and in x97_v5.csv Mother's education (highest grade completed) Nuclear indicator (1 if living with both biological parents at age 14) Rural indicator (1 if residing in a rural area at age 14) Number of siblings Afro-American indicator (1 if yes, 0 otherwise) Hispanic indicator (1 if yes, 0 otherwise) Mother?s age when respondent was born Male indicator (1 if yes, 0 otherwise) Birth year = 1981 indicator (1 if yes, 0 otherwise) Birth year = 1982 indicator (1 if yes, 0 otherwise) Birth year = 1983 indicator (1 if yes, 0 otherwise) Predicted value of the Rotter Locus of Control score (based on 1979 regression) Predicted value of the Rosenberg Self-Esteem score (based on 1979 regression) Number of time periods respondent in our sample is observed There are 2,151 respondents in the 1979 file and 2,651 respondents in the 1997 file. Order of variables in hgc79_v5.csv and in hgc97_v5.csv Highest grade completed by respondent at age 16 Highest grade completed by respondent at age 17 Highest grade completed by respondent at age 18 .... Highest grade completed by respondent at age 24 Highest grade completed by respondent at age 25 (10 columns) Order of variables in inc79_v5.csv and in inc97_v5.csv AFQT score (standardized residual from regression of AFQT score from Altonji et al on highest grade completed at age 16). Family income divided by 10,000, expressed in year 2000 dollars Order of variables in inc79_v5q.csv and in inc97_v5q.csv AFQT score (standardized residual from regression of AFQT score from Altonji et al on highest grade completed at age 16). Family income in second quartile (1 if yes, 0 otherwise) Family income in third quartile (1 if yes, 0 otherwise) Family income in fourth quartile (1 if yes, 0 otherwise)