headst {RDHonest}

Head Start data from Ludwig and Miller (2007)

Description

Subset of Ludwig-Miller (2007) data. Counties with missing poverty rate, or with both outcomes missing (hs and mortality) were removed. In the original dataset, Yellowstone County, MT (oldcode = 27056) was entered twice, here the duplicate is removed. Yellowstone National Park, MT (oldcode = 27057) is also removed due to it being an outlier for both outcomes. Counties with oldcode equal to (3014, 32032, 47010, 47040, 47074, 47074, 47078, 47079, 47096) matched more than one FIPS entry, so the county labels may not be correct. Mortality data is missing for Alaska.

Usage

headst

Format

A data frame with 3,127 rows and 18 variables:

statefp

State FIPS code

countyfp

County FIPS code

oldcode

ID in Ludwig-Miller dataset

povrate

Poverty rate in 1960 relative to 300th poorest county (which had poverty rate 59.1984)

mortHS

Average Mortality rate per 100,000 for children aged 5-9 over 1973–83 due to causes addressed as part of Head Start's health services

mortInj

Average Mortality rate per 100,000 for children aged 5-9 over 1973–83 due to injury

hs90

High school completion rate in 1990 census, ages 18-24

pop

County population (1960 census)

sch1417

Percent attending school, ages 14-17 (1960 census)

sch534

Percent attending school, ages 5-34 (1960 census)

hs60

High school completion rate in 1960 census, ages 25+

pop1417

Population aged 14-17 (1960 census)

pop534

Population aged 5-34 (1960 census)

pop25

Population aged 25+ (1960 census)

urban

Percent urban (1960 census)

black

Percent black (1960 census)

statepc

State postal code

county

County name

Source

Douglas Miller's former website, http://web.archive.org/web/20190619165949/http://faculty.econ.ucdavis.edu:80/faculty/dlmiller/statafiles/

References

Jens Ludwig and Douglas L. Miller. Does head start improve children's life chances? Evidence from a regression discontinuity design. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 122(1):159–208, February 2007. doi:10.1162/qjec.122.1.159