STvsPSID: Smith-Todd treated units versus PSID control individuals

Description Usage Format Details Source References

Description

The Smith-Todd subset of Lalonde's treated units versus PSID (Panel Study of Income Dynamics) control individuals

Usage

1

Format

A data frame with 2598 observations on the following 10 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

re74

real earnings in 1974

re75

real earnings in 1975

re78

real earnings in 1978 (post treatment outcome)

hispanic

ethnic indicator variable

Details

These two sets of treated and control units can be hardly matched.

Source

see references

References

Smith, J., Todd, P. (2005a) Does Matching Overcome Lalonde's Critique of Nonexperimental Estimators?, Journal of Econometrics, 125(1-2), 305-353.


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