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Data from National Supported Work program and Panel Study in Income Dynamics

Description

Dehejia and Wahba (1999) sample of ata from Lalonde (1986). This data set includes 185 treated units from the National Supported Work (NSW) program, paired with 2490 control units drawn from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID-1).

The treatment variable of interestis nsw, which indicates that an individual was in the job training program. The main outcome of interest is real earnings in 1978 (re78). The remaining variables are characteristics of the individuals, to be used as controls.

Usage

lalonde

Format

A data frame with 2675 rows and 14 columns.

nsw

treatment indicator: participation in the National Supported Work program.

re78

real earnings in 1978 (outcome)

u78

unemployed in 1978; actually an indicator for zero income in 1978

age

age in years

black

indicator for identifying as black

hisp

indicator for identifying as hispanic

race_ethnicity

factor for self-identified race/ethnicity; same information as black and hisp in character form.

married

indicator for being married

re74

real income in 1974

re75

real income in 1975

u74

unemployment in 1974; actually an indicator for zero income in 1974

u75

unemployment in 1975; actually an indicator for zero income in 1975

educ

Years of education of the individual

nodegr

indicator for no high school degree; actually an indicator for years of education less than 12

References

Dehejia, Rajeev H., and Sadek Wahba. "Causal effects in nonexperimental studies: Reevaluating the evaluation of training programs." Journal of the American statistical Association 94.448 (1999): 1053-1062.

LaLonde, Robert J. "Evaluating the econometric evaluations of training programs with experimental data." The American economic review (1986): 604-620.

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