NLSY_BW: NLSY Birth Weight.

In bate: Computes Bias-Adjusted Treatment Effect

NLSY Birth Weight.

Description

NLSY data to analyse the effect of maternal behaviour on children's birth weight. Natality detail files are from 2001 and 2002. Data is from the NLSY Children and Young Adults panel.

Usage

NLSY_BW

Format

A data frame with 7686 observations on 13 variables:

birth_wt

birth weight, grams

BF_months

months of breast feeding

mom_drink_preg_all

did the mother drink at all during pregnancy

lbw_preterm

low birth weight + preterm

age

age of child

female

child female

black

mother black

motherAge

age of mother

motherEDU

years of schooling of mother

mom_married

is the mother married?

income

annual income of mother

sex

years of schooling of mother

race

race of mother

gesweek

gestation week

any_smoke

did the mother smoke at all during pregnancy

Source: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O1W9dP8F3B1DnAZGBegpoqCfysUrn7Uc/view?usp=sharing

Examples

## Load data set
data("NLSY_BW")
## See names of variables
names(NLSY_BW)

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