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Lalonde subsample of the National Supported Work Demonstration Data (NSW)

Description

This data was collected to evaluate the National Supported Work (NSW) Demonstration project in Lalonde (1986).

Usage

data(nsw)

Format

A data frame containing 9 variables.

treat: Treatment assignment
age: Age
ed: Years of Education
black: 1 if Black, 0 otherwise
hisp: 1 if Hispanic 0 otherwise
married: 1 if married 0 otherwise
nodeg: 1 if no college degree 0 otherwise
re75: 1975 earnings
re78: 1978 earnings

Details

The dataset was obtained from the ATE package (see reference).

Source

"NSW Data Files" from Rajeev Dehejia's website. URL: http://users.nber.org/~rdehejia/data/.nswdata2.html

"National Supported Work Evaluation Study, 1975-1979: Public Use Files." from the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research. URL: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/7865

References

Lalonde, R. (1986). "Evaluating the Econometric Evaluations of Training Programs," American Economic Review, 76(4), 604-620.

Dehejia R. and Wahba S. (1999). "Causal Effects in Non-Experimental Studies: Re-Evaluating the Evaluation of Training Programs," JASA 94 (448), 1053-1062.

Asad Haris and Gary Chan (2015). ATE: Inference for Average Treatment Effects using Covariate Balancing. R package version 0.2.0. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=ATE

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