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In jbryer/psa: Applied Propensity Score Analysis with R

Lalonde Dataset

Dataset used by Dehejia and Wahba (1999) to evaluate propensity score matching.

This dataset is included with the Matching package:

data(lalonde, package='Matching')

A data frame with 445 observations on the following 12 variables.

• age - age in years.
• educ - years of schooling.
• black - indicator variable for blacks.
• hisp - indicator variable for Hispanics.
• married - indicator variable for martial status.
• nodegr - indicator variable for high school diploma.
• re74 - real earnings in 1974.
• re75 - real earnings in 1975.
• re78 - real earnings in 1978.
• u74 - indicator variable for earnings in 1974 being zero.
• u75 - indicator variable for earnings in 1975 being zero.
• treat - an indicator variable for treatment status.

References

Dehejia, Rajeev and Sadek Wahba. 1999.“Causal Effects in Non-Experimental Studies: Re-Evaluating the Evaluation of Training Programs.” Journal of the American Statistical Association 94 (448): 1053-1062.

LaLonde, Robert. 1986. “Evaluating the Econometric Evaluations of Training Programs.” American Economic Review 76:604-620.

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