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Data from Card (1995) to estimate the effect of college education on earnings
Description
Data from the National Longitudinal Survey Young Men Cohort. This data is used to estimate the effect of college education on earnings, using the presence of a nearby (in-county) college as an instrument for college attendance.
Usage
close_college
Format
A data frame with 3010 rows and 8 variables
- lwage
Log wages
- educ
Years of education
- exper
Years of work experience
- black
Race: Black
- south
In the southern United States
- married
Is married
- smsa
In a Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area (urban)
- nearc4
There is a four-year college in the county
Details
This data is used in the Instrumental Variables chapter of Causal Inference: The Mixtape by Cunningham.
Source
Card, David. 1995. “Aspects of Labour Economics: Essays in Honour of John Vanderkamp.” In. University of Toronto Press.
References
Cunningham. 2021. Causal Inference: The Mixtape. Yale Press. https://mixtape.scunning.com/index.html.
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Data from Card (1995) to estimate the effect of college education on earnings
Description
Data from the National Longitudinal Survey Young Men Cohort. This data is used to estimate the effect of college education on earnings, using the presence of a nearby (in-county) college as an instrument for college attendance.
Usage
close_college
Format
A data frame with 3010 rows and 8 variables
- lwage
Log wages
- educ
Years of education
- exper
Years of work experience
- black
Race: Black
- south
In the southern United States
- married
Is married
- smsa
In a Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area (urban)
- nearc4
There is a four-year college in the county
Details
This data is used in the Instrumental Variables chapter of Causal Inference: The Mixtape by Cunningham.
Source
Card, David. 1995. “Aspects of Labour Economics: Essays in Honour of John Vanderkamp.” In. University of Toronto Press.
References
Cunningham. 2021. Causal Inference: The Mixtape. Yale Press. https://mixtape.scunning.com/index.html.
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