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Data from National Supported Work program and Panel Study in Income Dynamics
Description
Dehejia and Wahba (1999) sample of data from Lalonde (1986). This data set includes 185 treated units from the National Supported Work (NSW) program, paired with 2490 control units drawn from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID-1).
The treatment variable of interest is nsw
, which indicates that an individual
was in the job training program. The main outcome of interest is
real earnings in 1978 (re78
). The remaining variables are characteristics
of the individuals, to be used as controls.
Usage
lalonde
Format
A data frame with 2675 rows and 14 columns.
- nsw
treatment indicator: participation in the National Supported Work program.
- re78
real earnings in 1978 (outcome)
- u78
unemployed in 1978; actually an indicator for zero income in 1978
- age
age in years
- black
indicator for identifying as black
- hisp
indicator for identifying as Hispanic
- race_ethnicity
factor for self-identified race/ethnicity; same information as
black
andhisp
in character form.- married
indicator for being married
- re74
real income in 1974
- re75
real income in 1975
- u74
unemployment in 1974; actually an indicator for zero income in 1974
- u75
unemployment in 1975; actually an indicator for zero income in 1975
- educ
Years of education of the individual
- nodegr
indicator for no high school degree; actually an indicator for years of education less than 12
References
Dehejia, Rajeev H., and Sadek Wahba. "Causal effects in non-experimental studies: Reevaluating the evaluation of training programs." Journal of the American statistical Association 94.448 (1999): 1053-1062.
LaLonde, Robert J. "Evaluating the econometric evaluations of training programs with experimental data." The American economic review (1986): 604-620.