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Lalonde Subsample of the National Supported Work Demonstration Data (NSW)
Description
This data was collected to evaluate the National Supported Work (NSW) Demonstration project in Lalonde (1986).
Usage
data(nsw)Format
A data frame containing 9 variables.
- treat
Treatment assignment
- age
Age
- ed
Years of Education
- black
1 if Black, 0 otherwise
- hisp
1 if Hispanic 0 otherwise
- married
1 if married 0 otherwise
- nodeg
1 if no college degree 0 otherwise
- re75
1975 earnings
- re78
1978 earnings
Details
The dataset was obtained from the ATE package (see reference).
Source
"NSW Data Files" from Rajeev Dehejia's website. URL: http://users.nber.org/~rdehejia/data/.nswdata2.html
"National Supported Work Evaluation Study, 1975-1979: Public Use Files." from the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research. URL: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/7865
References
Lalonde, R. (1986). "Evaluating the Econometric Evaluations of Training Programs," American Economic Review, 76(4), 604-620.
Dehejia R. and Wahba S. (1999). "Causal Effects in Non-Experimental Studies: Re-Evaluating the Evaluation of Training Programs," JASA 94 (448), 1053-1062.
Asad Haris and Gary Chan (2015). ATE: Inference for Average Treatment Effects using Covariate Balancing. R package version 0.2.0. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=ATE