R/data-banks.R

In marginal-latte/QEDinfR: Quasi-Experimental Design and Inference Tools

#' Banking Failures During the Great Depression
#'
#' During the early great depression, the St. Louis Fed in the 8th Federal Reserve District was anti-interventionist,
#' while the Atlanta Fed in the 6th Federal Reserve District was an advocate for helping
#' banks in need. Mississippi was divided in half by these districts, with it's southern
#' half in Atlanta's 6th District, and the upper half in St. Louis's 8th district.
#' This data describes the number of banks in business over time in the 6th and 8th Federal
#' Reserve Districts.
#'
#'
#' @docType data
#'
#' @usage data(banks)
#'
#' @format An object of class \code{rda}
#'
#' @keywords datasets
#'
#'
#' @references Richardson, Gary, and William Troost. “Monetary Intervention Mitigated Banking Panics during the Great Depression: Quasi‐Experimental Evidence from a Federal Reserve District Border, 1929–1933.” Journal of Political Economy 117, no. 6 (2009): 1031–73. https://doi.org/10.1086/649603.

#'
#' @source \href{https://github.com/jrnold/masteringmetrics/blob/master/masteringmetrics/data/banks.rda}{Banks online source}
"banks"