R/rd-mm_mlda.R

In stevedata: Steve's Toy Data for Teaching About a Variety of Methodological, Social, and Political Topics

#' @importFrom tibble tibble
NULL

#' Minimum Legal Drinking Age Fatalities Data
#'
#' These are data you can use to replicate the regression discontinuity design
#'  analyses throughout Chapter 4 of \emph{Mastering 'Metrics}.
#'  Original analyses come from Carpenter and Dobkin (2009, 2011).
#'
#' @format A data frame with 50 observations on the following 19 variables.
#' \describe{
#' \item{\code{agecell}}{a numeric}
#' \item{\code{all}}{a numeric}
#' \item{\code{allfitted}}{a numeric}
#' \item{\code{internal}}{a numeric}
#' \item{\code{internalfitted}}{a numeric}
#' \item{\code{external}}{a numeric}
#' \item{\code{externalfitted}}{a numeric}
#' \item{\code{alcohol}}{a numeric}
#' \item{\code{alcoholfitted}}{a numeric}
#' \item{\code{homicide}}{a numeric}
#' \item{\code{homicidefitted}}{a numeric}
#' \item{\code{suicide}}{a numeric}
#' \item{\code{suicidefitted}}{a numeric}
#' \item{\code{mva}}{a numeric}
#' \item{\code{mvafitted}}{a numeric}
#' \item{\code{drugs}}{a numeric}
#' \item{\code{drugsfitted}}{a numeric}
#' \item{\code{externalother}}{a numeric}
#' \item{\code{externalotherfitted}}{a numeric}
#' }
#'
#' @details These data are not well-documented. You guys are on your own here. Good luck.
#'
#' @references Carpenter, Christopher and Carlos Dobkin. 2009. "The Effect of Alcohol Consumption on Mortality: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from the Minimum Drinking Age". \emph{American Economic Journal: Applied Economics} 1(1): 164--182.
#'
#' Carpenter, Christopher and Carloss Dobkin. 2011. "The Minimum Legal Drinking Age and Public Health". \emph{Journal of Economic Perspectives} 25(2): 133--156.
#'
"mm_mlda"