lalonde.psid: Non-experimental data from Lalonde (1986)

In apoorvalal/LalRUtils: Lal's utility scripts for personal use

Non-experimental data from Lalonde (1986)

Description

A dataset of experimental treated units and non-experimental control units from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID).

Usage

data(lalonde.psid)

Format

A data frame with 2675 rows and 12 variables

Details

• age - age in years.

• education - number of years of schooling.

• black - 1 if black, 0 otherwise.

• hispanic - 1 if Hispanic, 0 otherwise.

• married - 1 if married, 0 otherwise.

• nodegree - 1 if no high school degree, 0 otherwise.

• re74 - earnings ($) in 1974.

• re75 - earnings ($) in 1975.

• re78 - earnings ($) in 1978.

• u74 - 1 if unemployed in 1974, 0 otherwise.

• u75 - 1 if unemployed in 1975, 0 otherwise.

• treat - 1 if treated, 0 otherwise.

References

LaLonde, Robert J. (1986). Evaluating the Econometric Evaluations of Training Programs with Experimental Data. The American Economic Review, 76(4), 604–620.

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