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The mortgages
data contains data from Fetter (2015) on home ownership rates by men, focusing on whether they were born at the right time to be eligible for mortgage subsidies based on their military service.
mortgages
A data frame with 214144 rows and 6 variables
Birth State
Quarter of birth
White/nonwhite race indicator. 1 = Nonwhite
Veteran of either the Korean war or World War II
Owns a home
Quarter of birth centered on eligibility for mortgage subsidy (0+ = eligible)
This data is used in the Regression Discontinuity chapter of The Effect.
Fetter, D.K., 2013. How do mortgage subsidies affect home ownership? Evidence from the mid-century GI bills. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 5(2), pp.111-47.
Huntington-Klein. 2021. The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality. https://theeffectbook.net.
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