rebp {RDHonest}

Austrian unemployment duration data from Lalive (2008)

Description

Subset of Lalive (2008) data for individuals in the regions affected by the REBP program

Usage

rebp

Format

A data frame with 29,371 rows and 4 variables:

age

Age in years, at monthly accuracy

period

Indicator for whether REBP is in place

female

Indicator for female

duration

unemployment duration in weeks

Source

Rafael Lalive's website, https://sites.google.com/site/rafaellalive/

References

Rafael Lalive. How do extended benefits affect unemployment duration? A regression discontinuity approach. Journal of Econometrics, 142(2):785–806, February 2008. doi:10.1016/j.jeconom.2007.05.013