NSW: National Supported Work (NSW) Demonstration data
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Description Usage Format Details Source References

National Supported Work (NSW) Demonstration data, of a job training program implemented during the Seventies in the United States and analyzed by Lalonde. This data set also contains data from the CPS (Current Population Survey) and PSID (Panel Study of Income Dynamics) datasets.

data(NSW)

A data frame with 19204 observations on the following 13 variables.

treated: treated variable indicator
age: age
education: years of education
black: race indicator variable
married: marital status indicator variable
nodegree: indicator variable of not possessing a degree
dw: indicator of Dehejia-Wahba selected units
re74: real earnings in 1974
re75: real earnings in 1975
re78: real earnings in 1978 (post treatment outcome)
hispanic: ethnic indicator variable
st: indicator variable of Smith-Todd selected units
sample: number of reference sample: 1 = Lalonde, 2 = CPS and 3 = PSID

Lalonde dataset has 722 experimental treated and control units. CPS has 15992 non experimental control units and PSID has 2490 non experimental control individuals.

see references

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

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