X. Gong, A. van Soest, and P. Zhang, "The Effect of the Gender of Children on Expenditure Patterns in Rural China: A Semiparametric Analysis", Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 20, No. 4, 2005, pp. 509-527. All data are in the file gvz-data.dat, which is an ASCII file in DOS format. It is zipped in the file gvz-data.zip. There are 5394 observations. The data are stored in the file in the order shown below: Sample description Variable | Obs Mean Std. Dev. Min Max ---------+-------------------------------------------------------- lnc | 5394 8.958569 .5703814 7.034388 10.99108 lncper | 5394 7.612232 .5842499 5.242629 9.867619 lndinc | 5394 7.178876 .7098501 2.912351 9.903367 food | 5394 .5478566 .1865621 .0330028 .9960602 alta | 5394 .0184958 .020713 0 .3416467 edu | 5394 .0069702 .0221211 0 .608112 num | 5394 3.966073 .9770965 2 9 padu | 5394 .602904 .2133001 0 1 pfadu | 5394 .2980488 .1310868 0 .8333334 child6 | 5394 .0428193 .1088824 0 .6 girl6 | 5394 .0188683 .0708464 0 .5 child12 | 5394 .155117 .193044 0 .6666667 girl12 | 5394 .0709831 .1275933 0 .6666667 child15 | 5394 .0696603 .1197763 0 .6 girl15 | 5394 .0307513 .081673 0 .5 child18 | 5394 .0688338 .1214586 0 .6 girl18 | 5394 .0324657 .0843956 0 .5 pup12 | 5394 .1305292 .1802253 0 .6666667 pug12 | 5394 .0585935 .1174285 0 .6 pup15 | 5394 .0614309 .1138059 0 .6 pug15 | 5394 .0262814 .0764287 0 .5 pup18 | 5394 .0321785 .0868948 0 .6 pug18 | 5394 .014459 .0573085 0 .5 pup19 | 5394 .0098204 .0496079 0 .6 pug19 | 5394 .0041236 .0321157 0 .4 age | 5394 41.83139 9.384966 22 83.5 dcoast | 5394 .3172043 .4654309 0 1 dmiddle | 5394 .4543938 .4979619 0 1 dwest | 5394 .2284019 .4198418 0 1 child2 | 2272 .6875 .4636144 0 1 prim | 5394 .3127549 .4636584 0 1 hedu | 5394 .5904709 .4917925 0 1 agold | 5117 15.70647 6.723907 1 75 xold | 5117 .5419191 .4982884 0 1 agmax | 3866 13.40481 3.654605 6 18 xmax | 3866 .5183652 .4997272 0 1 bpmax | 5394 .5087134 .4999704 0 1 bpmin | 5394 .5422692 .4982563 0 1 agmin | 3866 11.17382 3.805327 6 18 xmin | 3866 .5807036 .4935078 0 1 ygfam | 5394 .4249166 .4943762 0 1 Explanation: lnc log total expenditures (yuan) lncper log total expenditures per capita (yuan) lndinc log disposable income per capita(yuan) food food share(%) alta alcohol & tobacco share(%) edu education share(%) num number of household members padu percentage of adult members (19-) (both parents and children older than 18) pfadu percentage of female adult members (19-) (spouse and female children older than 18) child6 percentage of children (0-5) girl6 percentage of female children (0-5) child12 percentage of children (6-12) girl12 percentage of female children(6-12) child15 percentage of children (6-12)} girl15 percentage of female children (13-15) child18 percentage of children (16-18) girl18 percentage of female children (16-18) pup12 percentage of children at school (6-12) pug12 percentage of female children at school (6-12) pup15 percentage of children at school (13-15) pug15 percentage of female children at school (13-15) pup18 percentage of children at school (16-18) pug18 percentage of female children at school (16-18) pup19 percentage of children at school (19-) pug19 percentage of female children at school (19-) age average age of husband and wife dcoast dummy, 1 if household in coastal area dmiddle dummy, 1 if household in middle area dwest dummy, 1 if household in western area child2 dummy, 1 if household has more than one children prim dummy, 1 if father's education =>4 and <= 6 years hedu dummy, 1 if father's education >6 years agold age of the oldest child xold sex of the oldest child agmax age of the oldest child in the school age (6-18) xmax sex of the oldest child in the school age (6-18) bpmax dummy, 1 if the oldest child in the school age attend school bpmin age of the youngest child in the school age (6-18) agmin sex of the youngest child in the school age (6-18) xmin dummy, 1 if the youngest child in the school age attend school ygfam dummy, 1 if the family with at least one child, average age of parents less than 40 and all children 18 years or younger There are also six encapsulated PostScript containing figures. These are zipped in the file gvz-figs.zip.