R/rd-Dee04.R

In svmiller/stevedata: Steve's Toy Data for Teaching About a Variety of Methodological, Social, and Political Topics

#' @importFrom tibble tibble
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#' Are There Civics Returns to Education?
#'
#' This should be a data set for a (partial?) replication of
#'  Dee's (2004) article on the purported civics returns to education. I use
#'  these data for in-class illustration about instrumental variable analyses.
#'
#' @format A data frame with 9227 observations on the following 8 variables.
#' \describe{
#' \item{\code{schoolid}}{a numeric vector that should be understood as categorical}
#' \item{\code{hispanic}}{a numeric vector for if the person is Hispanic}
#' \item{\code{college}}{a numeric vector for if the person went to college}
#' \item{\code{black}}{a numeric vector for if the person is black}
#' \item{\code{otherrace}}{a numeric vector for if the person is another race}
#' \item{\code{female}}{a numeric vector for if the person is a woman}
#' \item{\code{register}}{a numeric vector for if the person is registered to vote}
#' \item{\code{distance}}{a numeric vector for the distance to college}
#' }
#'
#' @references Dee, Thomas S. 2004. "Are there civics returns to education?" \emph{Journal of Public Economics} 88: 1697--1720
#'
#' @details I should note I acquired this data set in Mexico City sitting on a two-week program at IPSA-FLACSO Mexico Summer School in 2019. The sample size here (9,227) is about two thousand short of what Dee reports in his article. It'll do, though.
#'
"Dee04"