smoking: smoking dataset

smokingR Documentation

smoking dataset

Description

A dataset on the implementation of Proposition 99 in California in 1988. Data contains information on California and 38 other (control/donor) states used in Abadie et al. 2010's paper walking through the synthetic control method. Covers the time range 1970 to 2000

Usage

data(smoking)

Format

A data frame with 1209 rows and 7 variables:

state

name of U.S. state

year

year

cigsale

cigarette sales pack per 100,000 people

lnincome

log mean income

beer

beer sales per 100,000 people

age15to24

Proportion of the population between 15 and 24

retprice

Retail price of a box of cigarettes

Source

https://economics.mit.edu/files/11859

References

Abadie, A., Diamond, A. and Hainmueller, J., 2010. Synthetic control methods for comparative case studies: Estimating the effect of California’s tobacco control program. Journal of the American statistical Association, 105(490), pp.493-505.


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