LaLonde: National Supported Work Study Experimental Data

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National Supported Work Study Experimental Data

Description

This data set gives the outcomes a well as treatment assignments and covariates for the National Supported Work Study, as analyzed in LaLonde (1986).

Format

A data frame consisting of 12 columns (including a treatment assignment vector) and 2787 observations.

outcome integer whether earnings in 1978 are larger than in 1975 0,1
treat integer whether the individual received the treatment 0,1
age numeric age in years
educ numeric education in years
black factor black or not 0,1
hisp factor hispanic or not 0,1
white factor white or not 0,1
marr factor married or not 0,1
nodegr factor an indicator for no high school degree 0,1
log.re75 numeric log of earnings in 1975
u75 factor unemployed in 1975 0,1
wts.extrap numeric extrapolation weights to the 1978 Panel Study for Income Dynamics dataset

Source

Data from the National Supported Work Study. A benchmark matching dataset. 1975 earnings are pre-treatment.

References

LaLonde, R.J. 1986. “Evaluating the econometric evaulations of training programs with experimental data."" American Economic Review, Vol.76, No.4, pp. 604-620.


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