NSW: Dataset from Dehejia and Wahba (1999)

Description Usage Format Source References

Description

Subset of National Supported Work and PSID data from Dehejia and Wahba (1999).

Usage

1

Format

A data frame with 2,675 observations (2,490 controls from PSID, and 185 treated individuals from NSW) and 11 variables.

treated

Treatment indicator

age

Age in years

education

Year of education

black

Indicator for black

hispanic

Indicator for Hispanic

married

Indicator for married

re74

Earnings in 1974 (in thousands of dollars)

re75

Earnings in 1975 (in thousands of dollars)

re78

Earnings in 1978 (in thousands of dollars)

ue74

Indicator for zero earnings in 1974

ue75

Indicator for zero earnings in 1975

Source

Rajeev Dehejia's website, http://users.nber.org/~rdehejia/nswdata2.html

References

Dehejia, R., and Wahba, S. (1999), "Causal Effects in Nonexperimental Studies: Reevaluating the Evaluation of Training Programs," Journal of the American Statistical Association, 94 (448), 1053-1062.


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