lalonde: The Lalonde data set

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The Lalonde data set

Description

Data set from the National Supported Work Demonstration (Lalonde 1986, Dehejia and Wahba 1999). This data set is publicly available at https://users.nber.org/~rdehejia/data/.nswdata2.html.

Usage

data(lalonde)

Format

A data frame with 614 observations, corresponding to 185 treated and 429 control subjects, and 10 variables. The treatment assignment indicator is the first variable of the data frame; the next eight columns are the covariates; the last column is the outcome:

treatment

the treatment assignment indicator (1 if treated, 0 otherwise)

age

a covariate, measured in years

education

a covariate, measured in years

black

a covariate indicating race (1 if black, 0 otherwise)

hispanic

a covariate indicating race (1 if Hispanic, 0 otherwise)

married

a covariate indicating marital status (1 if married, 0 otherwise)

nodegree

a covariate indicating high school diploma (1 if no degree, 0 otherwise)

re74

a covariate, real earnings in 1974

re75

a covariate, real earnings in 1975

re78

the outcome, real earnings in 1978

Source

https://users.nber.org/~rdehejia/data/.nswdata2.html

References

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

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