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nswR Documentation

Lalonde subsample of the National Supported Work Demonstration Data (NSW)

Description

This data was collected to evaluate the National Supported Work (NSW) Demonstration project in Lalonde (1986).

Usage

data(nsw)

Format

A data frame containing 9 variables.

treat

Treatment assignment

age

Age

ed

Years of Education

black

1 if Black, 0 otherwise

hisp

1 if Hispanic 0 otherwise

married

1 if married 0 otherwise

nodeg

1 if no college degree 0 otherwise

re75

1975 earnings

re78

1978 earnings

Details

The dataset was obtained from the ATE package (see reference).

Source

"NSW Data Files" from Rajeev Dehejia's website. URL: http://users.nber.org/~rdehejia/data/.nswdata2.html

"National Supported Work Evaluation Study, 1975-1979: Public Use Files." from the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research. URL: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/7865

References

Lalonde, R. (1986). "Evaluating the Econometric Evaluations of Training Programs," American Economic Review, 76(4), 604-620.

Dehejia R. and Wahba S. (1999). "Causal Effects in Non-Experimental Studies: Re-Evaluating the Evaluation of Training Programs," JASA 94 (448), 1053-1062.

Asad Haris and Gary Chan (2015). ATE: Inference for Average Treatment Effects using Covariate Balancing. R package version 0.2.0. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=ATE


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