nswcps: National Supported Work - Current Population Survey (NSW-CPS)

Description Usage Format Value References

Description

The data set combines a subsample of the experimental treated units from NSW, constructed by Dehejia and Wahba (1999), with "CPS-1," a nonexperimental comparison group from CPS, constructed by LaLonde (1986).

Usage

1

Format

An object of class data.frame with 16177 rows and 11 columns.

Value

A data frame with 11 variables:

treated

1 if treated, 0 otherwise

age

age

age2

age squared

educ

years of schooling

black

1 if black, 0 otherwise

hispanic

1 if Hispanic, 0 otherwise

married

1 if married, 0 otherwise

nodegree

1 if high school dropout, 0 otherwise

re74

real earnings in 1974

re75

real earnings in 1975

re78

real earnings in 1978

References

Dehejia, R. H. and Wahba, S. (1999). "Causal Effects in Nonexperimental Studies: Reevaluating the Evaluation of Training Programs," Journal of the American Statistical Association, 94:1053–1062.

LaLonde, R. J. (1986). "Evaluating the Econometric Evaluations of Training Programs with Experimental Data," American Economic Review, 76:604–620.


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