R/transfer.R

In kosukeimai/qss-package: Data and Code for "Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction"

#' Brazilian Government Transfer Data
#'
#' Data set used in experiment to estimate the
#' effects of increased Brazilian government spending on educational
#' attainment, literacy, and poverty rates.
#'
#' @format A data frame with 1787 rows and 9 variables:
#' \describe{
#'  \item{ .row }{ integer: row number }
#'  \item{ state }{ character: state name }
#'  \item{ region }{ character: region name }
#'  \item{ literate91 }{ numeric: literacy rate of the state in 1991 }
#'  \item{ educ91 }{ numeric: average years in education of the state in 1991 }
#'  \item{ poverty91 }{ numeric: poverty rate of the state in 1991 }
#'  \item{ poverty80 }{ numeric: poverty rate of the state in 1980 }
#'  \item{ educ80 }{ numeric: average years in education of the state in 1980 }
#'  \item{ pop82 }{ integer: population in 1982 }
#' }
#'
#'
#' @details
#' See \emph{QSS} Table 4.12.
#'
#'
#' @references
#' \itemize{
#' \item{ Imai, Kosuke. 2017. \emph{Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction}.
#' Princeton University Press. \href{http://press.princeton.edu/titles/11025.html}{URL}. }
#' \item { Stephan Litschig and Kevin M. Morrison (2013) “The impact of intergovernmental
#' transfers on education outcomes and poverty reduction.” \emph{American Economic Journal: Applied Economics},
#' vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 206–240. doi = 10.1257/app.5.4.206 }
#'}
"transfer"