Description Usage Format Details Source References
The gov_transfers_density
data contains data from Manacorda, Miguel, and Vigorito (2011) on government transfer program that was administered based on an income cutoff. As opposed to the gov_transfers
data set, this data set only contains income information, but has a wider range of it, for use with density discontinuity tests.
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A data frame with 52549 rows and 1 variable:
Income measure, centered around program cutoff (negative value = eligible)
This data is used in the Regression Discontinuity chapter of The Effect.
Manacorda, M., Miguel, E. and Vigorito, A., 2011. Government transfers and political support. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 3(3), pp.1-28.
Huntington-Klein. 2021. The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality. https://theeffectbook.net.
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