Female Labor Supply, Human Capital and Welfare Reform: Data from the Labour Force Survey, 1993-2006, and the British Household Panel Survey, 1991-2008

These datasets are provided to allow the replication of results presented in the paper <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3982/ECTA11576/epdf" title="Female Labor Supply, Human Capital and Welfare Reform">Female Labor Supply, Human Capital and Welfare Reform</a> by Richard Blundell, Monica Costa Dias, Costas Meghir and Jonathan Shaw, published in Econometrica. Two datasets are included: one containing derived variables based on the <a href="https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/series/?sn=2000026" title="Labour Force Survey">Labour Force Survey</a> (LFS) between 1993 and 2006 and one containing derived variables based on the <a href="https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/series/?sn=200005" title="British Household Panel Survey">British Household Panel Survey</a> (BHPS) between 1991 and 2008. Identifiers have been relabelled so the data cannt be matched to the original BHPS and LFS datasets.<br> <br> No specific documentation is available for this study, but users should use the data along with the broad description of the data and code contained in the Econometrica paper (link above) and online appendix. Documentation for the main LFS and BHPS are available from the survey series links above.<br> <br>